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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Transparent Window Background?

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Anruth
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Is there a way to create a window with a transparent background that will show the Windows Desktop?
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Booma
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@Anruth
try to read this http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=159438&b=1

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Anruth
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Posted: 29th May 2013 16:03
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Thanks,

I think the Styx plugin is what I need.
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Burning Feet Man
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Have you looked at BBB Gui? I recall one of the demo projects having a translucent sub-window to the main DBPro application.

BBB Gui Plugin

Remember after installing BBB Gui, you'll get the DLL conflict, but simply just pick one or the other.

Now, let me look at Styx! Never heard of it until now.

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Burning Feet Man
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Posted: 10th Aug 2013 04:16 Edited at: 10th Aug 2013 04:17
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Ooops, nearly forgot to ask here;



Can you spot my App window below? Note that everything in the view has alpha applied. What I'd really love to see, is some one apply alpha just to backdrop, thus a spinning cube would appear to spin all by itself on the desktop. Now that would be cool.



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Rudolpho
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I think changing the mask image for a window in realtime would not run fast enough; possibly if you had a very little cube / whatever you wish to display.

You can get the desktop window and draw to it, but in that case other windows can of course go in front of it. Apart from this I'm not sure, interesting idea though


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Chris Tate
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Posted: 10th Aug 2013 13:52
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I have tried this before by using what Rudolpho recommended. The backdrop just keeps flashing; it was not perfectly transparent.

I think this is because of the windows forms GDI drawing API not being hardware accelerated, so the actual processor handling the transparency of the window is the CPU; which perhaps is subject to delays in-between frames.

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