Hi, It appears that the 'irregularly shaped' windows which used to be possible by using now-deprecated GDK code even without full compositing available, are no longer possible using non-deprecated code.
Using the old deprecated code, a GdkRegion could be created with the desired window shape (with the region defining fully transparent and fully opaque areas) and a call to gdk_window_shape_combine_region to bring it about. I've been trying to work around this but feel like a dog running in circles chasing my tail. gdk_window_shape_combine_region is not deprecated, but GdkRegion will be replaced in GTK3.0 with cairo_region_t for which there is no gdk_window_shape_combine_region equivalent. Furthermore the gdk_region_polygon call necessary to create the GdkRegion of the desired shape, is deprecated without replacement. So I look into gdk_window_shape_combine_mask instead, but gdk_bitmap_create_from_data is of course deprecated. The docs do at least suggest cairo alternatives, but none of which are compatible with gdk_window_shape_combine_mask. Please please tell me if there's anyway around this mess. I can't force or assume use of compositing. Cheers, James. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
