Is it possible in gtk3 to create a menu that is transparent? The underling window would use an image as it's background.
I can use a color for the window background but not a image.
I attempted to do what you said using an example from the gdk2 reference by adding a background image first and then porting it to gtk3. I'm no expert at gtk at all, but I did make it somehow compile:
http://pastebin.com/0XwUW5k3 (note that there has to be a "background.png" in the same folder)
The transparent dark rectangle holding the widgets is most likely the box; I tried settings its background color to full transparency as well, but it didn't work, and you'd probably have to do the composing/drawing of it yourself if you wanted it to be completely transparent, but that's not something I'd suggest because it seems too complex..
Also, you might want to create a background image with an already fitting resolution for the window, then you could skip the scaling part.
The scale function originally comes from this mailling-list thread
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I'm using svg as a background image (logo) in a WP menu plugin and i want it to change a color (fill) when hovered. As it's a free version of the plugin i can't use image, object etc - i have to use my svg as a background image. I've to support IE (9+) so masks/filters are out of question and i'm pretty much left with svg-sprites. That's okey, i know how to do it (using use/xlink:href).
But now comes a tricky part. I want my svg to change only fills of some groups/paths while hovered leaving others untouched. I can only change colors of all paths/groups together in a background image with svg-sprites afaik. Is there a way to do it? Thank you in advance!
I'm building a Container using code and now I want to set the Styleusing one UnselectedStyle from the Resource Editor.
I'm doing this because, I don't find the way to add a LinearBackground color and a RoundBorder to my Container. When I put the two properties to the Style, the background color has gone.
So I finally add this Style using the UIManager.getInstance().addThemeProps(String name ThemeFromResource); and later the setUIID(String nameStyle). Is working fine...my Containergets the Style, but the app lose the navigation, the back Commandhas gone.
How can do this? I would like to do with my first way...creating the lineargradient and the border and adding it to the style, but I don't find the way.
I would strongly suggest against doing that.
Border's override other forms of background, round border tries to respect some of them but is REALLY inefficient about that. It effectively draws the background on a mutable image then draws the round border on another mutable image, gets the RGB for both and performs a NOT operation to crop the background into a round image. This (as you might understand) is REALLY expensive in terms of performance, while the image is then cached it is still expensive in the longer term.
You should use image borders which are MUCH faster.
I'm pretty new to Fireworks. I drew an orange rectangle and made it semi-transparent. My web page has a patterned background which I'd like to be able to see through my div, but I can't change the opacity of the div in CSS as the div contains other divs that also become transparent using this CSS when I don't want them to!
I've tried loads of things I found on Google but to no avail. Can anyone help?
If you want to know how to export the semi-transparent rectangle from Fireworks so it stays that way, just make sure your canvas color is set to none (the box with a red diagonal line through it) and then export it as a PNG-32.
I'm not sure I understood what you mean by DIVs becoming transparent when using CSS. Can you elaborate on that a bit?
I've a frame with wxStaticBitmap when i make the frame semi-transparent using wxTopLevelWindow::SetTransparent(), staticbitmap also gets transparent.
Is there a way we can make only the frame transparent and not the controls?.
(similar to windows 7 taskbar and startmenu).
Thanks in advance,
Have a nice day!
Rajan.M
Have you tried using a panel fitted to the frame's client area and then making the panel, rather than the frame, the parent of the controls? This works better in many different ways, so I suspect it might solve your problem here. You can set the frame transparent, but force the panel to be opaque which should cascade to all the child windows of the panel.
( I haven't tried it myself - IMHO transparent frames are ugly )
I'd like to improve upon jQuery's dialog code by using CSS-sprites, and thus also add animations of the dialog borders.
To do this, i'd like all the artwork to be in 1 png file, a css sprite.
My problem is that in order to support a dialog that maximizes to 2 or 3 monitors, i think i'd have to put 5000px wide / high border graphics in the css sprite file. Because i can't find a way to resize a selected portion of a css sprite image.
Basically i want to resize from the sprite image a region (t,l,w,h) to a DIV or IMG on my page with a different width and height.
I'd like to know, is this even possible? It seems background-position does not support this at all.
I've tried the first solution in How can I scale an image in a CSS sprite, but could not get it to work using that.
I've tried using the new background-size property in conjunction with background-position, but that also does not produce the results i want.
Spent another few hours twiddling with css, but could not get sprites to work for dialogs.
But my animated dialogs don't need many frames (not unless you want to put actual video as a dialog backdrop online), so for the dialog theme i'm designing now i have 8 312x312 png's as frames, 8 requests, 386kb total. Just enough to create a glowing animation for when the dialog is in a "highlighted" state. It's do-able.
I'm using the technique from How can I scale an image in a CSS sprite
See http://mediabeez.ws in about a month for the opensource release of animated dialogs.
I will be developing and testing this standalone component when it's used by my own homegrown CMS, so it will have the ability do be themed, dragged and dropped, things like that.