I may not be understanding you right - but it sounds like you want to have a pygame window that lets other windows on the desktop show through... If that is what you are after, then you will not be able to achieve that with pygame. SDL has no features at all for either custom shaped windows or window transparency (which are the two OS level technologies I know of that can let you achieve what it sounds like you are asking about) wxPython is the only thing I know of that has that kind of thing as a feature (if you are interested, check out the "ShapedWindow" sample in the miscellaneous section of the wxPython demo) On 7/22/07, Ian Mallett <geometrian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to make a program where at any time there are three oddly shaped bars on the screen. I do not want them to appear to be in a window. My problem is that, setting the flags argument in pygame.display.set_mode () to NOFRAME, the surface must then be filled ( surface.fill() ). I don't want to cover up my transparentness though... Ian