Re: Application with invisible window

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

weasel wrote:
> I would like to create an application that in effect has an invisible 
> client area in the window that can be drawn to.  I can accomplish this 
> with transparency and mask, but then each pixel is either on/off, what I 
> want is alpha translucency.
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See note here:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-gdk-pixbuf.html#GdkPixbufAlphaMode
for up-to-date situation on alpha-blending.

Cheers,
                      -Tristan