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Transparent background to view desktop?

in General Discussion • Other • 2 months ago

Just wondering if it is possible to make a rectangular portion of a sketch background transparent in order to see the desktop? Can that be done dynamically?

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GoToLoop

Re: Transparent background to view desktop?

2 months ago

AFAIK, canvas background itself is always 100% opaque!

Re: Transparent background to view desktop?

2 months ago

This sketch on openProcessing has me entranced and might get you started.

Re: Transparent background to view desktop?

2 months ago

I'll check that out, but I'll need to fire up my laptop. For some reason html5 sketches don't show up for me on my work computer. It's running IE9. I don't know why that is.

Re: Transparent background to view desktop?

2 months ago

Just to clarify, that when GoToLoop was saying that canvas is opaque with Java mode.

However this transparent openprocessing sketch is using HTML5 transparent canvas property (and thus will only work in JavaScript mode). And looks like this:

Re: Transparent background to view desktop?

2 months ago

Hi all, This sketch i did with processing.js indeed has a transparent background and let you view the content of the html page behind the canvas, but that's not like a transparent web page that would let you see your desktop through it. You really should try chrome or firefox instead of ie for these kind of things like html5 experiments or 3d in browser with webGL. Makio135 http://makio135.com/