alwaysontop

How to make a click- and see-through 'always on top'-window

I want to display an semi-transparent always-on-top window with some information, but I do not want this window to take input or receive focus. All mouse-clicks should go to the underlaying window. I remember seeing this in a shell-replacement application years back, but I can't remeber witch. Any Ideas how to achieve this effect with ...

Trying to bring swing frame to front before taking a screenshot but getting artifacts

I have a part of my app that takes a screenshot of a certain window but before I do so I want to bring the window to the front. This works fine on my Mac machine but when I tested it on in Windows XP on paralells the screenshot always has a greyed out area where the overlapping window was. It seems the screenshot is always taken while ...

mac,windows,flex,air, alwaysontop

i setup alwaysOnTop="true" in mx:WindowedApplication alwaysOnTop="true" tag. but this does not work in MAC but works in windows. How can i solve this for MAC? ...

C/C++/C# Force window to be on top

Is the there a way to force another window to be on top? Not the application's window, but another one, already running on the system. (Windows, C/C++/C#) ...

How to make Shell to allways be on top at runtime in SWT?

I'd like to implement "Always on top" configuration option in my application that takes effect immediately. I know that I can call Shell constructor with ON_TOP style. Is there a way to do that at runtime, that is after Shell instance has already been created? ...

Java 6, JFrame stuck alwaysontop

This issue only seems to occur since I upgraded from 1.5 to 1.6 The main JFrame, randomly seems to get stuck infront of every other application in windows. Even another JDialog popping up set to alwaysontop(true) will be behind this main JFrame. Any ideas on what could be causing this issue? / Any ideas for solutions? Never had this i...