Cocoa and semi-transparent rounded windows

[Ronny Salomonsen]

Hi

I guess some of you might have tried a preference-pane called "synergy"
which shows a semi-transparent window with an icon and some text when iTunes
starts playing a MP3.

The same kind of window is used in Salling Clicker to display what the
AppleScripts returned value is. You also see it when you click on a phone
number in Address Book and choose "Zoom" or whatever.

How do you make this kind of window?

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Ronny Salomonsen, rsalomon(a)online.no

[Doc O'Leary]

In article <BB3AE1CB.22E2%rsalomon@online.no>,
Ronny Salomonsen <rsalomon@online.no> wrote:

> How do you make this kind of window?

[url]http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Code/Cocoa/RoundTransparentW[/url]
indow.htm

[Ronny Salomonsen]

On 16-07-03 14:00, in article
[email]droleary.usenet-0976A5.07000816072003@corp.supernews.com[/email], "Doc O'Leary"
<droleary.usenet@subsume.com> wrote:

> In article <BB3AE1CB.22E2%rsalomon@online.no>,
> Ronny Salomonsen <rsalomon@online.no> wrote:
>

>> How do you make this kind of window?

>
> [url]http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Code/Cocoa/RoundTransparentW[/url]
> indow.htm

I found it about 15 minuter after posting this thread, but thank you anyway
:)

:: Ronny

[No Spam]

In article <BB3AE1CB.22E2%rsalomon@online.no>,
Ronny Salomonsen <rsalomon@online.no> wrote:

> I guess some of you might have tried a preference-pane called "synergy"
> which shows a semi-transparent window with an icon and some text when iTunes
> starts playing a MP3.
>

....

>
> How do you make this kind of window?

The basic trick is to "setOpaque:NO", but you also want to consider
"setAlphaValue:X", for X < 1.0. You can see a complete example at
<[url]ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Sample_Code/Cocoa/RoundTransparentWindow.s[/url]
it>