Does Transparency key work anymore?

Posted by Fiendish on Sat 04 Jul 2020 06:53 PM — 3 posts, 16,368 views.

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The key argument to Transparency (https://www.mushclient.com/scripts/doc.php?function=Transparency) doesn't appear to work for me in Wine. Does it work in non-XP Windows these days?
Amended on Sat 04 Jul 2020 06:54 PM by Fiendish
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The relevant underlying function call is SetLayeredWindowAttributes, and see this page:

https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-bugs/2010-October/253627.html

Forms with transparent regions works OK in Windows XP but the transparency not work in Wine 1.3.2.

Transparency is obtained using the Windows API call to SetLayeredWindowAttributes.

Possibly this is a Wine issue.

Amended on Sun 05 Jul 2020 05:06 AM by Nick Gammon
Australia Forum Administrator #2
Testing under Windows 10 it appears to work as documented.