> That's true. But I still think a custom node renderer would be the easiest > way to accomplish what Edvin is trying to do. :-) > Very possibly :)
> > I hacked together the glass pane effect by opening a Window with a null > background colour & paint (making it transparent) over the Display. I > extended it for opening modal dialogs so that it takes a snapshot of the > background, fades and blurs it, and then open the dialog over the top of it > all. (see attached image) > > That's cool. You might be able to achieve a similar effect by simply > attaching a BlurDecorator to the dialog's owner when the dialog is opened. > > I think I did that first. I imagine I then took the snapshot approach to save expensive graphics operations on what I knew to be a static background. Does that sound right? It has the downside that the image is not updated if the host frame is resized, so I take the coward's option and simply lock the host frame while the modal dialog is being displayed.
