Forms and menus transparency?

[Anonymous]

Hi all, I wanted to add transparency to my application written in FreePascal wit Lazarus.
Is it possible? Does exist a property to set, i.e., something like (in pseudocode) ThisObject.Transparency:=200 (out of 256 levels).
I know it would be a difficult thing to obtain in a cross platform environment, but it will be cool.
Does exist something similar or with similar purpouses in Lazarus?
Can I set the level of transparence of a window, a region, a form,a menu?
Any hint will be apreciated, thanks!

[Marc]

It is not (yet ?) possible

[felipemdc]

Yes, I would say this is very hard to be implemented in a multi-platform way.

You may use Windows API or GTK directly to do such things and then create a {$IFDEF WIN32} and {$IFDEF Linux} on your code. I don't know if you can use the form designer in this case, but maybe you can...

[Marc]

Multiplatform is not that difficult. Add a SetTransparency to TWSWinControl and implement it in the different widgetsets.