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	Discussion by CiaraMarie with 13 Replies. Last Update: March 10, 2005, 7:34 pm

CiaraMarie

Does anyone know how to make graphics transparent without using PSP or Adobe? Thanks

Sun Sep 19, 2004 Reply New Discussion

Jhonny

You mean transparent GIFs?

If that's what you mean then check out,
http://stuff.mit.edu/tweb/map.html

Mon Sep 20, 2004 Reply New Discussion

CiaraMarie

QUOTE (Jhonny)

You mean transparent GIFs?

If that's what you mean then check out,
http://stuff.mit.edu/tweb/map.html

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Yes, transparent GIFs and thank you.

Mon Sep 20, 2004 Reply New Discussion

Is it possible to make transparent windows? Like ones that are translucent and you can see both the window and the one underneth it though the one on top? I thought I heard something about that and I thought it would be cool do like a ghost alert that flashed a few times with a mouse over...

If you have info... It'd be appreciated

thanks.

Mon Sep 20, 2004 Reply New Discussion

Jhonny

QUOTE (KyoNiwa)

thanks.

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I've seens windows like that. Never bothered to check the source.

Mon Sep 20, 2004 Reply New Discussion

qwijibow

Yes !

i posted a minni tutorial on the site !

basically you need to update to the latest version of Xorg, and tweak the config file.

http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=448

it reeealy is an amasing feature ! looks great !

Mon Sep 20, 2004 Reply New Discussion

Jhonny

QUOTE (qwijibow)

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Your tutorial deals with transparent wndows in X11 (correct me if I'm worng). And I think "KyoNiwa" is asking for tranparent frame on the web. Which he can use with mouse over functions.

Mon Sep 20, 2004 Reply New Discussion

qwijibow

QUOTE (Jhonny)

Your tutorial deals with transparent wndows in X11 (correct me if I'm worng). And I think "KyoNiwa" is asking for tranparent frame on the web. Which he can use with mouse over functions.

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Ohh right !
yeah functionality like that has to be supported by the Operating system.... Currently, Only Unix BSD and Linux support this... (plus any other OS's which use Xorg)

you may have to wait anouther decode for MS windows to catch up

Tue Sep 21, 2004 Reply New Discussion

KyoNiwa

QUOTE (qwijibow)

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Yeah... I have a Mac OS X and IE and Safari browsers.... lol is it possible to do transparent windows on the web? It doesnt matter if it's an alert or a window anymore lol.... i would just like a transparent something lol... not to sound desperate or anything lol.

Sat Sep 25, 2004 Reply New Discussion

qwijibow

QUOTE (KyoNiwa)

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only possiblee if you have xorg-6.8 installed... im not familiar with Mac-OXS, but i know its a BSD based system.. try it maybe.. www.x.org

Mon Sep 27, 2004 Reply New Discussion

lhunath

QUOTE (KyoNiwa)

thanks.

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To answer your question:
There is only one way to make translucent things on the web, and that's by using 24bit PNGs as background. Works perfectly, as long as the browser of the person that comes on your site supports this.
Browser support includes Opera & Firefox (Mozilla) but Internet Explorer does not support this.
As IE is the most used browser, this is a huge letdown. There are, nevertheless, ways to get around this. And this is by using the invalid CSS filter (invented by microsoft against the rules of the W3C) to apply a DirectX filter which allows for PNG support. There are, nevertheless, issues with this, because, anything within that translucent window, becomes unclickable. So links inside it will not be clickable etc..

If you're interested, Dean Edwards' IE7 Patch, to bring Internet Explorer a bit up to standards, has all this included and it all does it automatically for you.

Wed Oct 13, 2004 Reply New Discussion

thedevil

I dont think you can make an image transparent without the use of image processing softwares like adobe photshop or Paint Shop Pro...

So not my wit...

Thu Nov 18, 2004 Reply New Discussion

ChronicLoser

hmm, I'm really surprised no one mentioned this: the opacity filter in the div. Simply stick
style="Filter: Alpha(Opacity=30)"
into the div tag and everything inside it will be only 30% opacity. It's as easy as that. No programs or anything....just simple css coding ^_^

Thu Nov 18, 2004 Reply New Discussion