[python-win32] Existing App-window ->Transparent

Gavin Brelstaff gjb at crs4.it
Fri Jul 9 18:51:45 CEST 2004


Paul wrote:

> There are window styles WS_EX_LAYERED and WS_EX_TRANSPARENT, and a
> SetLayeredWindowAttributes call which are probably relevant. I have
> an application, Windows PowerPro, which among, other functions, can
> set arbitrary windows to have a transparency of anything between 0
> (opaque) and 255 (completely invisible). I don't know how it works,
> exactly, but playing with it (www.windowspowerpro.com) and something
> like Spy++ might give some ideas...

Thanks Paul,

I did a search through the Python Win32 docs and the call 
SetLayeredWindowAttributes seems to be missing from the
API.  I guess you wrote "Windows PowerPro" in C/C++ and not
in python?

\Gavin


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