Is it possible to have a transparent background in a text area gadget? If so, how would I go about this? Thanks.
Transparent BG in text area
BlitzMax Forums/BlitzMax GUI Programming/Transparent BG in text area I don't think so... what do you want to accomplish?
For Windows2000/XP/Vista check out [MaxGUI/Win32]: Transparent Window Gadgets.
EDIT: i see now it may not do exactly what you want :(
EDIT: i see now it may not do exactly what you want :(
Well, thanks for the suggestion grable but no, what I actually need is a text area that has a transparent background so that I can utilize it over a user-skinnable dialog box (ala the chat boxes in any Final Fantasy game or other RPG.)
I've decided to write my own custom DialogBox class that handles this using drawtext(). I also needed functionality to check which word a mouse was hovering over, and it was quite easy to do in this class actually. It would have been nice to have been able to use a textarea instead, for some of it's other features (easily change fonts, colors, etc), but I'm just writing my own custom XML-esque-but-lighter-weight protocol for specifying such things within the text itself.
I've decided to write my own custom DialogBox class that handles this using drawtext(). I also needed functionality to check which word a mouse was hovering over, and it was quite easy to do in this class actually. It would have been nice to have been able to use a textarea instead, for some of it's other features (easily change fonts, colors, etc), but I'm just writing my own custom XML-esque-but-lighter-weight protocol for specifying such things within the text itself.