Punch a hole through a window other than your own?
Punch a hole through a window other than your own?
- Subject: Punch a hole through a window other than your own?
- From: Jay Koutavas <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:24:47 -0500
I know it's possible to punch a transparent hole through my own
window using a transparent custom view. But... is it possible, by
hook or by crook, to punch a hole through another application's
window?
The Windows version of the project I'm researching can do this. It
grabs a window handle and knocks rectangular holes right through an
Internet Explorer window to do dynamic overlays atop playing video on
a window directly underneath. Alas, if only Safari honored the
z-index of embedded movie plugins (Quicktime and Media Player), I
wouldn't be having to look for a similar hack on Mac OS X.
With all the horsepower of Quartz compositing I imagine there is
someway to achieve this. Probably an undocumented way, but still it
is possible, witness moving windows around atop playing video.
Comments, chuckles? ;)
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Jay Koutavas mailto:email@hidden
Heynow Software http://www.heynow.com
Windham, New Hampshire, USA
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