transperent skins?

jjgalvez · Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 4

I know you can set the transparency for altdesk, but is it possible to make a skin where the client area is totaly transparent? so that the icons float in some type of frame?

~mycroes · Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 1659 Location: Netherlands

Yes, use magic pinky (RGB 255,0,255) to make transparent areas... Just make the are you want to see through pink and surround it by a border or anything and there's your floating desktop... One thing I don't know if Icons will still be drawn, but I think Altdesk will do that...
Greetings,

Michael

jjgalvez · Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 4

Tried that and unfortunatly the icons did not show up, bummer. I just desided to set the transparence on the entire object and leave it at that

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~mycroes · Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 1659 Location: Netherlands

Maybe they'll inprove it in future, meanwhile your solution probably is the best I can think of...
Greetings,

Michael

yurko · Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 1

i wish a patch or plug in came out where you can set a transparancy for all menus and actual windows. imagine everything transparent with an awesome wide screen wallpaper.... Rolling Eyes

The_PC_Mechanic · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:23 am Post subject:

I've run into a similar problem with that before - Icons will NOT show over transparent areas - the "cheat" way to get around that is to copy the background for the selected area where you are going to want the icons, and use that instead of transparency.

Regards,

mickeblue · Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 2215

Why won't AltDesk support png's then? Confused

The_PC_Mechanic · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject:

because it hasn't had that support coded into it yet! Twisted Evil

Regards,

Liderc · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject:

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dracconusg · Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 12 Location: Houston, TX

I would first like to say , that unfortunately the peolple here are right. There is not way to set the programs transparency without sacrificing the icons. Now, what you could do is...tada... make a script that does nothing more than keep icon levels set to no or little transparency, and then in that same script just make the background image change to maybe 100% transparency.