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Article: 
 Translucent and Shaped Swing Windows
Subject:  Suggestion and comments
Date:  2008-05-03 14:25:05
From:  pwillis


Not that I'm complaining....but,

Instead of just masking away part of the window to make it transparent, wouldn't
it be better to be able to apply a spline curve to the axes of window components and simply *BEND* the components to the desired shape?

Masking is a nice quick and dirty eye candy thing but,
personally, I'd like to make my scroll bars wavy, my windows
round like portholes, and then map textures to the components **WITHOUT** having to skin a whole bunch
of bitmaps over a fudge-work of mouse events.

Window masking and transparency are kind of standard fare....aren't they.

Maybe I'm too critical. I'm sure this took a great deal of work to accomplish. It's a very nice addition to the available tools.

Pw

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