Re: Is Alpha Channel support in next release plan?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 17:51, Christof Petig wrote:

> - event boxes with fully transparent background (IIRC an event box 
> mandantes an X window which occludes background images of the containing 
> widget). This is what I'm interested in most, now. Or to be more 
> specific I want tooltips on labels/frames without occluding the 
> background image.

This is easily done using an input-only window. I've done this in
EelInputEventBox in eel. On my todo list I have an item to integrate
this into GtkEventBox, but my todolist is pretty long.

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