Comments on: transparent windows howto

By: Joseph Le Brech

Joseph Le Brech — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:13:06 +0000

for indention I google for a htmlencoder and paste my code in there, it encodes it so that the indents are hard coded, then wrap it in a PRE tag and CODE tag.

Thanks for the code by the way I’m going to use it to make a callcentre script prompter

By: david

david — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:32:39 +0000

i’ve been looking for something like this for a few days and have been getting wrapped up a whole win32api UpdateLayeredWindow trainwreck. i wish i had come across this simple solution earlier. thanks!

also, to get the right indentation you could just look at the html source. (or you could use “pre” tags.)

By: Oğuz Yarımtepe

Oğuz Yarımtepe — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:21:49 +0000

You are right. But it seems this template is not supporting the code tag. I edited the entry but still it is not intended.

So here is the link that you can check the source intended: http://pastebin.com/f45bb76e0

By: Stuart Longland

Stuart Longland — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:48:51 +0000

Hi,

Just stumbled across your site here whilst looking at creating a transparent window — I want to create a simple application that can sit just above the root window and display system stats. (If it works out, I’ll probably release the code for everyone too).

There’s one slight problem with your above code — it’s not indented. With C, Perl or other languages, that wouldn’t matter too much… but with Python — it’s imperative that the code is properly indented, since Python relies on this for parsing code blocks.

Wordpress provides a tag for displaying code... could you perhaps re-post the above using that, or alternatively, attach a plaintext file one can download?

Regards, Stuart Longland