Transparency confusion

[Trevor DeVore]

On Dec 27, 2003, at 4:59 PM, Ops wrote:

> I would like to banner some text across the bottom of a windows 
> desktop.  I
> have created a stack that is the length of the screen, and on the very
> bottom.  I can certainly get text to scroll across that wide stack, 
> but what
> I would like to do is have the background of whatever the is behind the
> stack to "show through" so that all that can be seen is the actual 
> scrolling
> text NOT on top of a black or white rectangle (the stack)....I'm 
> wanting to
> *just* see the text, and whatever that stack is on top of (like a 
> normal
> windows desktop) I would like to "show through".....is this possible??
> THANKS!

I just released an external which will accomplish this on Windows 2000 
 >.  It enables you to set a color of a stack window to transparent.  I 
have tested this on Windows 2000 but it should work on Windows XP as 
well.

You can check it out at 
<http://mangomultimedia.com/developer/revolution/>.  It is free to use.

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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com