Custom shaped window?

cppdev95 · May 7, 2018, 8:47pm

I have been trying to wrap my head around this. I am trying to make a custom shaped window using SDL 2. In the doucmentation I have come across: SDL_SetWindowShape()

Now I am trying to call SDL_SetWindowShape() but I do no know what to put as the last parameter.

Does anyone have a simple example of creating a custom shaped window that I may please see? As I cannot find anything online.

Thanks

Acry · May 8, 2018, 12:23am

That trollface is a shaped window. The filename is

testshape.c

Yeah, it is in the test-folder of the repo. There you go:

github.com

spurious/SDL-mirror/blob/master/test/testshape.c

/*
  Copyright (C) 1997-2019 Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>

  This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
  warranty.  In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
  arising from the use of this software.

  Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
  including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
  freely.
*/
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include "SDL.h"
#include "SDL_shape.h"

#define SHAPED_WINDOW_X 150
#define SHAPED_WINDOW_Y 150
#define SHAPED_WINDOW_DIMENSION 640

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svanimpe · September 23, 2023, 6:14pm

Is this supposed to work on macOS? I’m trying to reproduce this, but always get a square window, not a shaped one.