Transparent BG in text area

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SculptureOfSoul (Posted 2007) [#1]

Is it possible to have a transparent background in a text area gadget? If so, how would I go about this? Thanks.

Blueapples (Posted 2007) [#2]

I don't think so... what do you want to accomplish?

grable (Posted 2007) [#3]

For Windows2000/XP/Vista check out [MaxGUI/Win32]: Transparent Window Gadgets. EDIT: i see now it may not do exactly what you want :(

SculptureOfSoul (Posted 2007) [#4]

Well, thanks for the suggestion grable but no, what I actually need is a text area that has a transparent background so that I can utilize it over a user-skinnable dialog box (ala the chat boxes in any Final Fantasy game or other RPG.) I've decided to write my own custom DialogBox class that handles this using drawtext(). I also needed functionality to check which word a mouse was hovering over, and it was quite easy to do in this class actually. It would have been nice to have been able to use a textarea instead, for some of it's other features (easily change fonts, colors, etc), but I'm just writing my own custom XML-esque-but-lighter-weight protocol for specifying such things within the text itself.