Re: Windowless Applications with Transparency

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

john mckerrell fastsearch com wrote:

> Hi,
>   I need to write a application that will give me a "desktop buddy", a
> picture of a little cartoon character on my desktop that will animate,
> interact with the user, that sort of thing. I think I'd like to use
> GTK(2) because it's freely available, and for the following reasons. The
> primary platform for this is Windows, but I personally use Linux 99% of
> the time so I'd like it to work on both platforms, and being able to
> develop it on Linux would be handy.
>  
Note that questions like this should be asked on gtk-list gnome org or 
gtk-app-devel-list gnome org   This list is for discussion relating to 
development _of_ gtk, rather than with gtk.

In answer to your question, yes you can create a shaped, borderless 
window with gtk.  The relevant APIs are:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window-set-decorated
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget-shape-combine-mask

James.

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