Just so you know, the javafaq at www.afu.com claims its impossible. I
have yet to find a mistake in the faq.
-rchit
Dustin Lang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Try setting the background color to null.
>
> One might suppose that what should happen is that the browser would leave
> the background in its original pristine state, and then unless the applet
> painted itself, that background would stay the way it was. I think most
> (read: all) browsers paint the applet with some default colour (ugly
> gray?).
>
> An alternate solution would be for the applet to ask the browser what the
> background looked like originally. This could/would be done through
> AppletContext. Alas, such a method does not exist, so you're pretty much
> out of luck, at least in the general case.
>
> It's important to make the distinction between actually making the applet
> transparent and making it look transparent. As far as I can see in
> general, the first is not possible, while the second is relatively easy.
>
> Cheers,
> dstn.
>
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