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Re: Fully transparent window opaque to mouse?
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Re: Fully transparent window opaque to mouse?


  • Subject: Re: Fully transparent window opaque to mouse?
  • From: Dave Keck <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 20:52:36 -1000

If you've exhausted all other options, you might try taking a
screenshot and drawing that into the full-screen window. This should
function the same as a transparent mouse-event-grabbing window, as you
described.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Chris G <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is there a way to create a full screen window which has an alpha value of 0
> (fully transparent) but which is opaque to mouse events? I have thus far
> found that setting the window alpha below 0.06 or so causes mouse events to
> pass through the window.
>
> If not, is there a way to install a desktop-wide mouse event filter, so that
> I can intercept these events before they are dispatched to other Apps?
> Thanks
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