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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: transparent windows?
Message-ID: <177@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 25 May 90 01:10:49 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.UUCP (Glenn C. Reid)
Organization: Skyline Press, Woodside CA
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Do any of you have any ideas about how to keep a window from painting
its backgroundGray color?  I would like to have a window that lets you
see through to what's behind it, for positioning graphic elements.

I know that it must be possible to keep it from drawing the background,
since (with the PostScript drawing model) it doesn't start out gray.
At worst, I could probably redefine "rectfill" to do nothing, but then
I couldn't use it, either :-)

I couldn't seem to find any reasonable method to override in the View
or Window classes, and before I spent a lot of time fooling with it,
I thought I would ask if anybody else has accomplished this (even if
by accident :-)

Thanks,
 Glenn Reid
 glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us