[maemo-developers] Home plugin transparency

[From: Hannes Wallnoefer]

Hi,

2008/3/10, Alfredo J. Fabretti <fabrettia at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
>   I'm trying to add transparency and round borders to my home plugin
>  but I can't find any documentation about that, should I look for it in
>  the hildon documentation? Also, I can't find any code example for
>  that.

have a look at this thread:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16720

If you just want on/off transparancy, you could try using
shape_combine_mask() on the home item with a partly transparent image.
But if you want real alpha compositing you may want to use cairo.
These examples are written in Python, but they should work in C as
well:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=151583&postcount=17
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=151880&postcount=19

hope that helps
hannes


>   Any help will be apreciated.
>
>  Thanks.
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