And I mean like showing the desktop transparency. I recently made http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8005323/sparkle%20rain.zip and shared it on another forum, people had the idea that it would be cool to have the window's background in transparency and in fullscreen so you could basically make sparkles all over your screen.
Is this possible in any way?
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Re: Transparent Background?
What does the alpha component of love.graphics.setBackgroundColor in 0.8.0 do then?
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Re: Transparent Background?
According to my test on Arch Linux, it does fucking nothing.tentus wrote:What does the alpha component of love.graphics.setBackgroundColor in 0.8.0 do then?
Re: Transparent Background?
I suppose that in a way then that the command layers a color over the background and the alpha makes that layer translucent?thelinx wrote: According to my test on Arch Linux, it does fucking nothing.
I don't see the point when you could just use lower color values to get a darker color since that's what it would appear as.
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Isn't it related to framebuffer backgrounds?thelinx wrote:According to my test on Arch Linux, it does fucking nothing.tentus wrote:What does the alpha component of love.graphics.setBackgroundColor in 0.8.0 do then?
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Re: Transparent Background?
Framebuffers (canvases in 0.8.0) have their own clear method for setting their background color in 0.8.0.TechnoCat wrote:Isn't it related to framebuffer backgrounds?thelinx wrote:According to my test on Arch Linux, it does fucking nothing.tentus wrote:What does the alpha component of love.graphics.setBackgroundColor in 0.8.0 do then?
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Framebuffers (canvases in 0.8.0) have their own clear method for setting their background color in 0.8.0."TechnoCat wrote:Isn't it related to framebuffer backgrounds?thelinx wrote:According to my test on Arch Linux, it does fucking nothing.tentus wrote:What does the alpha component of love.graphics.setBackgroundColor in 0.8.0 do then?
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Is there any chance of this happening in the foreseeable future? It would be pretty awesome.
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I dunno. If you want to do that stuff you should consider switching to writing Widgets and Gadgets for OS X and Windows or using one of the many other frameworks like the never heard of anymore Yahoo! Widget Engine (Formerly the superior Konfabulator before they sold out). They use combinations of HTML5, JavaScript and CSS with WebKit (Or Trident in Windows case) to do their thing. JavaScript on pretty much ay modern browser is super fast these days. And all let you not draw a background so the game would appear on the desktop over the screen.
A alternative would be if there were any way whatsoever for Löve to take a screenshot of the desktop BEFORE the window appears, then load it as an image and draw it over a screen resolution fullscreen game. It wouldn't live-update, but it would work. But I don't think Löve can do that. When I used Visual Basic I wrote a program that took a screenshot, drew it to a screen sized canvas and let me draw on it with colored pens like they do on football games to describe the plays. It was awesome. My sister would play with it all day while I was at school.
A alternative would be if there were any way whatsoever for Löve to take a screenshot of the desktop BEFORE the window appears, then load it as an image and draw it over a screen resolution fullscreen game. It wouldn't live-update, but it would work. But I don't think Löve can do that. When I used Visual Basic I wrote a program that took a screenshot, drew it to a screen sized canvas and let me draw on it with colored pens like they do on football games to describe the plays. It was awesome. My sister would play with it all day while I was at school.
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