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How do I draw transparent DirectX content in a transparent window?

I want to draw DirectX content so that it appears to be floating over top of the desktop and any other applications that are running. I also need to be able to make the directx content semi-transparent, so other things show through. Is there a way of doing this? I am using Managed DX with C#. ...

Can I create transparent buttons in Visual Studio 2005 with C#

I have a user interface that requires placing some round buttons in a C# project with some data behind them. The buttons are System.Windows.Forms.buttons and I have used a GIF image with transparency to create them. However, the transparent areas aren't transparent. I've looked for references online but haven't found any suggestions fo...

Creating a transparent panel

I need to create a panel which should be invisible but the components inside it (for example, JTextArea, JButton, etc.) should be visible. When I click on the invisible panel, it should become visible. I can only use JRE 1.4 and nothing more than that. :( Any idea how to create such a transparent panel??? ...

CSS "see-through" background - crazy navigation menu problem

Hi guys, I have a crazy navigation menu that I have to code. It's kind of tough. Please see the screenshot of the design here: navigation menu screenshot As you can see, the background of the "Home" menu item is quite tough! I can't figure out how to make its background "see-through", meaning it cuts through the dark background and ...

How to create a compeletely transparent window with MFC?

I want to create a completely transparent window with MFC, but I don't know how to do this. Can you tell me the way? Thank you very much! ...

Dynamic transparent images using AlphaImageLoader in IE6

The following code works fine when I have an image in IE6 that i want to make transparent. <img src="image.png" style="width: 100px; height: 100px; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='image.png', sizingMethod='scale')" /> However the following does not. In this example I am using a dynamically generated PNG...

How to create transparent images in Java ME

How can I create an editable but transparent image in Java ME? ...

C# + Excel 2003 - transparent custom icon

I use following class to generate icon for custom toolbar in Excel 2003 from my C# code: public class ImageConverter : System.Windows.Forms.AxHost { public ImageConverter() : base("59EE46BA-677D-4d20-BF10-8D8067CB8B33") { } public static stdole.IPictureDisp ImageToIpicture(System.Drawing.Image image) { ...

How do I animate a background color to transparent in jQuery?

I can animate from transparent to color, but when I tell jquery to animate the backgroundColor: 'transparent' it just changes to white. Any idea how to fix this? ...

How to make a color transparent in a BufferedImage and save as PNG

I have been searching the web for this, but I havent found any decent help. I have a BufferedImage, which I have read in with ImageIO. Now I would like to make a certain color in that image to transparent, and save the image as PNG. I know I cannot just "paint" the transparent color for obvious reasons, so I am guessing I need some kin...

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...

PyQt - Transparent background

Hello, I try to make the background of my window transparent. But under widgets which are on it i see parts of my desktop-image. Now i have this in constructor: self.setFocusPolicy(Qt.StrongFocus) self.setAttribute(Qt.WA_QuitOnClose,True) self.setBackgroundRole(QtGui.QPalette.Base) self.setAttribute(Qt.WA_NoSystemBackg...

How to create a transparent window with non-transparent child controls (or child windows)?

Hi All, First, I'm working on Win32 with C++. I have been trying to implement a transparent window with a child window which should remain 100% opaque. It seems that child controls cannot have opacity better (ah.. lower) than the parent and if I make my parent 100% transparent then my child control also inherits the transparency. C...

Clearing the graphics of a transparent panel C#

I have a WebBrowser control with a transparent panel over the top of it, what I am trying to do is draw a rectangle on the transparent panel around the element in the page that the mouse is hovering over. So far I have everything working except the panel is not being cleared before drawing the next rectangle so I end up with rectangles ...

Why isn't flash updating the display while the mouse is clicked and moving?

I have a flash clip that moves a movieclip when the mouse is clicked on the movieclip. Something very basic. I'm not using drag (since the MC doesn't move with the mouse all the time), but rather using onMouseMove to update the MC location according to _xmouse, _ymouse and some other calculations. The problem was that under internet ex...

How can I hook multiple windows in C#?

Hi, I am trying to create an application that makes a window (external to the app) transparent when it loses focus. Most of things (getting window id, seting transparent, etc.) would be easy, except one thing - how do I hook windows? ...

YUI Charts Styling

Hello people. Through my search for a open-source charting system, I found the YUI library. So here is the question. How can I make the x-axis and y-axis transparent. style: { border: {color: 0xD0D696, size: 1}, font: {name: "Arial", size: 10, color: 0x559330}, dataTip: { border: {color...

writing a Firefox extension to show frameless/transparent window

I am currently developing a Firefox extension. In Firefox's extension you can display a window by calling window.open and specifying the XUL file for that window. You can make it a dialog and/or modal. But there is no way to make the window frameless (no title bar and window borders) and I understand that. Also, it is not possible to mak...

Why are my transparent images used in a Delphi 2009 Ribbon not transparent on runtime?

I just played around with the new Delphi 2009 ribbon, added a few pages, groups and actionclients (large buttons) to it. I created some transparent 32x32px PNGs in Photoshop and put them into a TImageList (set to cd32bit). I added this list to the Actionmanager's Images property, to show them on the buttons. At designtime the icons in th...

How to get my company's proxy transparent?

In my company there is a proxy that requires credentials. I use Windows XP and I want to apply an indirection layer in my tcp/ip stack that makes this completely transparent. For example it would be nice a software that I can configure with my company proxy and act as I don't have any proxy in my network. With this software I don't h...