Re: Stacks with transparent background

2010-06-09 Thread Shao Sean
Under Windows I have an external that allows you to set a stack a colour and then make that colour transparent.. Under Mac OS X there are two ways to create a window - composite and non-composite. Rev creates windows (stacks) as non-composite and therefore cannot create a transparent window with

Re: Stacks with transparent background

2010-06-09 Thread David Bovill
Interesting - thanks! Any reason you know of for not choosing composite windows on OSX - I take it you can't port your external to OSX without that :) On 9 June 2010 15:03, Shao Sean shaos...@wehostmacs.com wrote: Under Windows I have an external that allows you to set a stack a colour and

Re: Stacks with transparent background

2010-06-09 Thread Shao Sean
Interesting - thanks! Any reason you know of for not choosing composite windows on OSX - I take it you can't port your external to OSX without that :) No idea.. Might be a historical reason from when Mac OS X was just starting or from when Dr Raney was working on the engine or it might be a

Stacks with transparent background

2010-06-08 Thread David Bovill
Before I dive in with masks, multiple stacks and the like - any advice on how to achieve a stack with opaque controls and a transparent background. It seems that due to the nature of the inheritance using the blendlevel to make the stack window transparent means that all of its controls will be at

Re: Stacks with transparent background

2010-06-08 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, David Bovill wrote: Before I dive in with masks, multiple stacks and the like - any advice on how to achieve a stack with opaque controls and a transparent background. It seems that due to the nature of the inheritance using the blendlevel to make the stack window transparent means