I saw other answers and cracked this question, but nobody seems to be doing what I need.
In fact, I am after JWindow, whose background is translucent, but the contents of the window itself (buttons, text, etc.) are opaque. The methods I've seen so far fall into one of two categories:
- Taking pictures from behind the window and using them (http://onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/swinghks_hack41/index.html) is not very good in this scenario, since it is too slow, I want to you could put things like video outside the window and show it through
- Ensuring the transparency of the entire window (including components that I need to remain opaque on.)
This is what I ask, and if so, how to do it? If not, will Java 7 offer any methods to make this simpler / possible? I know that he got a lot of support built into molded windows, so I wonder if this can take care of this. I searched around for a while, but no luck.
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