Painting images on the desktop

SDL Development
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There are some way to do things like that??.
I wanna make a window without borders and with trasparent background,
this is posible to make with SDL??
Tnx.

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There are some way to do things like that??.
I wanna make a window without borders and with trasparent background,
this is posible to make with SDL??

You can use the SDL_NOFRAME flag when setting a video mode, and then
take a look at the gtk-demo which features a window with a hole in it.
http://www.libsdl.org/projects/gtk-demo/

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Programmer, Loki Software, Inc.

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oooo… that would be a neat feature. SDL doesn’t have direct support for this
now (AFAIK :wink: and I would expect this would be very difficult to do in a
platform independent way (here, the most difficulty would be across various X
window managers, who handle background images differently). But, if anyone was
interested, I’m sure a look through the Eterm source code would be informative
(at least for most X environments).

But, for making a window without borders, you can always use the SDL_NOFRAME
flag in SDL_SetVideoMode(…):
http://sdldoc.csn.ul.ie/sdlsetvideomode.phpOn Thu, 10 May 2001, you wrote:

There are some way to do things like that??.
I wanna make a window without borders and with trasparent background,
this is posible to make with SDL??
Tnx.

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