Forms and menus transparency?
lazarus / 10-Designer

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Anonymous · 2005-10-11 10:56

Hi all, I wanted to add transparency to my application written in
FreePascal wit Lazarus.
Is it possible? Does exist a property to set, i.e., something like (in
pseudocode) ThisObject.Transparency:=200 (out of 256 levels).
I know it would be a difficult thing to obtain in a cross platform
environment, but it will be cool.
Does exist something similar or with similar purpouses in Lazarus?
Can I set the level of transparence of a window, a region, a form,a
menu?
Any hint will be apreciated, thanks!

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Marc · 2005-10-11 15:41

It is not (yet ?) possible

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felipemdc · 2005-10-12 16:41

Yes, I would say this is very hard to be implemented in a multi-
platform way.

You may use Windows API or GTK directly to do such things and then
create a {$IFDEF WIN32} and {$IFDEF Linux} on your code. I don't know
if you can use the form designer in this case, but maybe you can...

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Marc · 2005-10-13 10:17

Multiplatform is not that difficult. Add a SetTransparency to
TWSWinControl and implement it in the different widgetsets.