The last time i tried this, I found out that the LinuxVM is the only one that would accept transparency in the world.
Just try out the HoleLW widget in the CUIS image . It does not work with windows or mac vms. John, is this correct for the Mac VM's? Fernando On Feb 7, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Richard Durr wrote: > Would'nt it be possible to set the background color to transparent so > that you could have squeak windows directly on the desktop? > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Stéphane Ducasse > <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=1936 >> >> soon in 1.1 :) >> >> >> On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:31 PM, GARY CHAMBERS wrote: >> >>> There is a new version of Polymorph on SqueakSource >>> (Polymorph-Widgets-gvc.103) that supports a background morph for the world >>> that resizes with the main window. >>> >>> I guess the backgroundSketch/Form stuff can be removed (I reused the >>> backgroundMorph inst var - no direct way of setting did remain, accessors >>> now). >>> >>> This can be used for background images (as requested): >>> >>> E.g. >>> >>> World backgroundMorph: >>> ((UITheme builder >>> newAlphaImage: (ImageReadWriter formFromFileNamed: 'Watery >>> 2.jpg') help: nil) >>> autoSize: false; >>> layout: #scaled; >>> lock) >>> >>> (AlphaImageMorph supports a few layout positions/tiling/scaling, more could >>> be added like aspect-maintaining scaling etc.) >>> >>> Or could be helpful for deployed applications... set the background morph >>> to your main UI morph, for instance. >>> >>> Regards, Gary >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pharo-project mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >> > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
