I did some early testing with this in Beta 2 of Win2K, never after that
with their dialogs.  These were my own dialog apps, not controlling some
other dialog or application.

I did some testing with this using IE 5.5, and did it without much
problem.  I made some face "windows" that were dragable and were
translucent.  Note that I did NOT make all of IE translucent, just some
IFrame's.

I believe that MS added the translucent stuff just for the fading menu's
trick.  Never seen it used except for fading in/out.  Never a middle
translucent stage being used.

David Stidolph
Austin, TX

-----Original Message-----
From: Austad, Jay [mailto:austad@marketwatch.com]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 2:10 PM
To: 'kde-devel@kde.org'
Subject: RE: Kde3 suggestion -- alpha channel use


Did someone actually make this work in win2k?  2 of our programmers here
were trying to make IE translucent and they both ended up having to do a
complete reinstall on their boxes because it hosed everything. =20

One of the cool things about this is that it would also be a GUI
enhancement
that the KDE community would beat microsoft to implementing in a useful
way.


I'm using mosfet's Liquid theme (http://www.mosfet.org), and I really
like
the translucent menus.  Doing this for a while app would be quite cool.

Jay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Stidolph [mailto:dstidolph@broadjump.com]=20
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 2:03 PM
> To: kde-devel@kde.org
> Subject: RE: Kde3 suggestion -- alpha channel use
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> This kind of "trick" was added to Windows 2000, but never=20
> really exploited since it was ONLY available to Windows 2000=20
> (might make an appearence now that XP is about to be out).
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> I'd love to see this available, especially if generally=20
> available.  I often have to write something about another=20
> program and have to switch back and forth a lot between the=20
> windows (not having dual monitors). With this I can make the=20
> top window translucent enough to see under it and still type.=20
>  It can also be used in games - imagine a radar display for=20
> example.  How about a scrolling graph, or a stock-ticker, or=20
> even just sub-menus?
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> This is eye-candy, but can be useful eye-candy.
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> David Stidolph
> Austin, TX
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austad, Jay [mailto:austad@marketwatch.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 1:45 PM
> To: 'kde-devel@mail.kde.org'
> Subject: Kde3 suggestion -- alpha channel use
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> I posted this to the kde3alpha list, but I think this may be=20
> a better forum for it:
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> The new version of QT adds hardware accelerated alpha channel=20
> support. Since KDE3 will use the latest version of QT, would=20
> it be possible to place a slider on the title bar of every=20
> application which would allow one to change the whole app=20
> from 0-100% opacity?  That way, I can sit and browse sites=20
> with a semi-transparent konqueror, and still watch what is=20
> going on in windows behind it.  A mod like this would be=20
> sweet eye-candy, but also quite useful from a productivity=20
> standpoint (since I routinely have about 20 windows open, or more).
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> Thoughts?
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