Re: Window With Transparent Background

2017-01-24 Thread Richard Charles
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 6:58 PM, Ken Thomases wrote: > > I can't explain the differences in the two cases, but are you also setting > the window's opaque property to NO? If not, then setting the background > color to partially transparent is not sufficient to reliably make a window > transpare

Re: Window With Transparent Background

2017-01-24 Thread Ken Thomases
On Jan 24, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Richard Charles wrote: > > Consider a window presented as a sheet with background transparency. > > - (void)windowDidLoad > { >// Produces gray background with transparency. >NSColor *color = [NSColor colorWithRed:0.5 green:0.5 blue:0.5 alpha:0.9]; >self

Re: Window With Transparent Background

2017-01-24 Thread Richard Charles
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 5:07 PM, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote: > > What is the point of a transparent sheet? This is somewhat similar to the connections panel in Interface Builder. When dragging to create a connection the opaque panel will change to semi-transparent. The user intera

Re: Window With Transparent Background

2017-01-24 Thread dangerwillrobinsondanger
What is the point of a transparent sheet? I'm not sure that's supported. You might want to consider a child window instead. Much easier to be sure you can control its behaviors. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 25, 2017, at 2:17, Richard Charles wrote: > > Consider a window presented as a sheet