Drawing on screen outside window

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Tue Apr 17 11:29:53 UTC 2001


On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Paul Davidowitz wrote:

> From:  "David N. Smith \(IBM\)" :
> 
> >If you mean outside the Squeak area itself, I don't know of a way. 
>
> YES, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN.  I want a window-less application
> which draws directly to the screen on voice command.

On most windowing systems, no application can draw outside its window
borders. The usual work-around is to create a "transparent" window and
draw onto it, letting the WS know which parts are transparent. There's a
hack to allow this for Win32 here:

	http://swiki.gsug.org:8080/sqfixes/1405.html

-- Bert





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