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Desktop graphics - or "skinned" windows

I'm looking for a way to draw animations right on the desktop. No window frames and with transparent background. I'm using Python in windows XP for it, but it doesn't have to be cross platform, although it'd be a nice bonus. Does anyone know about a python library that can do this? ...

Window-overflowing widget in wxWidgets

Hi everyone! I'm looking for a way to implement this design in wxPython on Linux... I have a toolbar with a button, when the button is pressed a popup should appear, mimicking an extension of the toolbar (like a menu), and this popup should show two columns of radio buttons (say 2x5) and a text box... My main problem is that the toolbar ...

How to draw a transparent frame in wxpython

UPDATE I completely rephrased the question I want to create a window with round corners, that's also semi-transparent. I managed to make a frame semi-transparent by calling the SetTransparent( alpha ) method, however, I still don't know how to make the window have no background. I tried to get the device context (dc) of the window and...

L shaped java application window

I want to create a java application that is the shape of an "L" so that the application only occupies the left and bottom borders of the screen. I also do not want the normal borders and title bar at the top. I've seen other people creating circles and other shapes like that, but no complex shapes. This is for a windows xp computer an...

Delphi TRichEdit Set background shape as rounded edge rectangle

My problem is to set the background shape to something like rounded edge rectangle. The fact that when you put background color on the text on TRichedit, the background shape would be a rectangle, not rounded edge. I would like to put some sample image but I don't know how. ...

Why is this code not accepting this png images transparency?

I've isolated the cause of the problem to be the image, since the code seems to work with other png images with transparency. However, it doesn't seem to work with the one image I need it to. This would be of great help seeing as I'm trying to make a nice shaped window. The image: The code: import wx class PictureWindow(wx.Frame):...

wxWidgets custom window shape (PNG)

Hi! I'm using wxPython bindings for wxWidgets. Is it possible to create custom-shaped window from PNG image and in count alpha-channel? Take a look at VS2010 splash screen to see what I mean: Highlighted zones (rounded corner and shadow) are not sharp, they use alpha-channel to look smooth. Update: I want not only custom shape, but ...

Multi-Shaped CSS Layers \ Non-rectangular CSS Layer

is it possible to make CSS Layers shaped like the following image... i know we can have images of this shape and with transparent backgrounds we can have Layers shaped like these... but no i want CSS Layers to actual borders like these shapes... is there a way CSS, jQuery or anything.... Note: by 'shapes like these i mean not just t...