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Thanks for the info.   Does a panel count as a lightweight control?  If so,
can it be used to act as a top-level window?

Johan Forsberg <jfo@SPAM_SPAM_EGGS_SPAMstmf.se> wrote in message
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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:
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> > > Does anyone know if it is possible to have a dialog with
> > > a transparent background?
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> > 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.
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> 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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