[racket] Can I make the frame% instances transparent?

On Jan 19, 2014 8:19 PM, "Neil Toronto" <neil.toronto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/19/2014 09:04 AM, WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Matthias Felleisen
>> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu <mailto:matthias at ccs.neu.edu>> wrote:
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>>     On Jan 18, 2014, at 5:48 PM, WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju wrote:
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>>>     Okay, I see.
>>>
>>>     Two more questions.
>>>     1. Can frame% instance be transparent so that I can see the 2nd
>>>     top-level window through it?
>>
>>
>>     Are you looking for a pane?
>>
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>> The picture below shows my target.
>> Inline image 1
>> The top-level window is my Racket GUI Application (Here iTerm2.app is
>> used as an example), and the second top-level window is gmail.com
>> <http://gmail.com>. I can see both because the top-level one is
>> transparent.
>
>
> Racket uses the wxWidgets toolkit for GUI stuff, and it doesn't support
this. It can make a top-level window partially transparent, but not just
the client area or just one subwindow (e.g. panel).

This hasn't been the case since the release of version 5.1 a few years back.

Sam
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