Hi Bruce, I see you have sent 2 similar messages, possibly because the 1st one wasn't delivered timely. The first one (from this afternoon) has arrived just yet, the second one came much earlier. I hope the order's so.
brucexs wrote (on 17.08.2006 22:36): >> Is it possible at all? I've found nothing about alpha-channel >> transparency here, but then I'm not much familiar with Windows >> programming and MSDN after all: > > Yes, GDI+ supports alpha blending. > Yes, GDI+ supports it. Search for Alpha blending GDI+ image. Yes, I see. > For example, FreeImage does not havea draw function, but > relies on plain GDI StretchDIBits. White man speak, me no understand. This is not good, right? Or is it? :? > Do you mean being able to have a button background be given by a URL No. > or whatever IE will take as a URL in Navigate method of IWebBrowser2? Yes. Exactly. > I am afraid I don't really understand what you mean. Do you mean > being able to render web content into the background of a button? I > am not sure I understand what this would buy you over just opening > up IE. Using IE only, you can't put a borderless, titleless window on the desktop or embed a small 200x15 scrolling RSS-feed in a PP-bar. Think about it. Desktop widgets, Internet pages, newstickers, games, JavaScript, and all that jazz in Powerpro. Oh boy, it'd be great! You could define a new cl-function, e.g. cl.InsertURL and related delete, change, etc. functions. We might have to think about this thoroughly. Have you seen Opera's widgets? What I have in mind should look much like those. Actually everything on the following pages are HTML pages pinned to the desktop without a browser window: http://www.opera.com/img/products/desktop/screenshots/widgetsoutside.jpg http://www.opera.com/img/products/desktop/screenshots/mac/widgetsoutside.jpg http://www.opera.com/img/products/desktop/screenshots/linux/widgets_desktop.png http://widgets.opera.com/picks/ http://widgets.opera.com/rated/ Btw, long before (almost 3 yrs now) Opera came up with their HTML-based widgets, I was wishing to use Gecko for this purpose. Alas, it's not easy Alan the wizkid says, so I'd resigned. But using IE is still better than nothing. Surely, if someone loads a heavy page with 41 Java applets and 349 images PP's memory usage would skyrocket but for smaller things it should be quite acceptable. Greetings, Cü Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
