Re: How to create layered windows or widgets?

["Tristan Van Berkom" <tvb gnome org>]

On Jan 23, 2008 7:03 AM, Skee Lin <skee lin gmail com> wrote:

Hi everybody,
I'm trying to create a transparent window to show some informations, and
it's always on top.
Does anybody know how to let the mouse messages through? For instance,
when I click on the window, I actually click on the desktop(if there are
no other windows).

I think you can accomplish this with gdk_window_shape_combine_mask ()

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/unstable/gdk-Windows.html#gdk-window-shape-combine-mask

Cheers,
             -Tristan