Dialog Windows

[Scott Corbett]

I recall the transparency being adjustable in Mac OS X. Unsanity has a  
product called WindowShade that does it - unfortunately it's not ready  
for Leopard.

I found this on the following link:   http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/10/05/cocoa.html?page=3
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As a fun aside, I want to tell you how to change the transparency of a  
window. You might have noticed that the transparency of our  
preferences window was changed as a result of it being a sheet. We  
could change it if we wanted to using one simple line of code, that we  
could put in awakeFromNib:

[prefsWindow setAlphaValue:0.50];
This would make a pretty transparent window, which is probably not so  
useful for a window with a lot of controls like we have. You can see  
the results of this in the image below: (image not copied)

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This might point you in the right direction

Scott

On Jan 10, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Gary Yonaites wrote:

>
> On Jan 9, 2008, at 7:03 PM, Elon Close wrote:
>
>> I just presumed the “sheets” basically were the same as the modal
>> windows, since they were fixed. So be it, they can’t be moved. I
>> personally think that there never should be an unmovable window on
>> the screen. No matter where it is put, it is always over something,
>> sometime that would be very nice to see. I can understand forcing one
>> to do something before it goes away, but I sure would like to move
>> the item.
>
> I'm wondering if there is not something that can be done at the
> system level to alter the transparency of the sheet so that what is
> under it becomes visible. Something like a command mouse click and
> hold on the sheet to make it temporarily semitransparent. As they are
> now they are very minimally transparent with the information
> underneath slightly blurred as well. Might be a suggestion for the
> Apple brain trust to look into down the line.
>
> Gary
> gary at yonaites.com
>
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