Re: Dialog with a transparent background?

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From: Johan Forsberg
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 00:00

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John P. McGrath <mcgrath@enter.net> skrev i
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> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:03:08 -0500, Mike Peters wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to have a dialog with
> > a transparent background?
>
> It is not possible -- to get a transparent background, you need to use a
> lightweight component.  Dialogs are heavyweight, as are all other top-
> level windows (Window, Frame, Applet).  The same applies to the Swing
> equivalents.

OTOH you can use a subclass of JInternalDialog... You can't actually
get transparency, but you can have arbitary shape (which is almost the
same thing). Hmmm... Set the glass pane to a transparent JDesktopPane,
then add custom JInternalDialogs to it? The only problem is that your
transparent dialog is confined to the main window.

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