[Gambas-user] how to set transparent background for buttons?

[neil lewis]

Rob wrote:

>On Friday 13 August 2004 16:42, neil lewis wrote:
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>>All of this is easy enough, but how can I make the bakcground
>>colour for the tool buttons (or any other Gambas widget)
>>transparent so that they are not restricted to rectangular
>>shapes?
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>You can't.... Qt has no concept of "transparent" yet as far as I 
>know except on the canvas (DrawingArea).  Gambas does have the 
>"mask" property, but only on forms, not individual controls.  
>You might be able to create a form with just the one control on 
>it and a mask of the desired transparency, and then insert that 
>form onto another form in code.... no idea what gambas will do 
>though, maybe you'd see your desktop background where the 
>transparency is supposed to be ;)
>
>I would personally use a DrawingArea control for non-standard 
>interfaces like these... it's also the only way (that I know of) 
>for gambas to do mouseover highlighting.
>
>Rob
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Thanks Rob, That sounds promising.