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Re: [pygame] Transparency
If you are on Windows, 7zip ( http://7-zip.org/ ) can open .tar.bz2
files (and everything else under the sun too)
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James Paige
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 08:25:19AM -0700, Ian Mallett wrote:
> wxPython's documentation is only available in .tar.bz2 format. I can't
> get bzip2 to work. Can someone decompress it for me and send it to me as
> a .zip file? Thanks,
> Ian
>
> On 7/23/07, Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
> >