On 11/7/2020 12:47 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I had the same thought — “why would anyone want semi-transparent Windows?”
I always assumed the feature existed to show off GPU features.
But here we have a user who found this so useful that they wrote code to
do it!
So I think it would be interesting to try and understand the use case,
rather than dismissing it.
I was trying to be realistic (low priority at best) rather than
dismissive. Otherwise I would not have mentioned that Notepad++ has it.
I don't understand why, and after getting the attached code to run
with 3.6.8, I still don't. It almost seems like a niche expert feature
to me. (Someone who found an obscure tk feature I did not know about is
not a rank beginner ;-).
Perhaps the use case would be served just as well with a multi-tabbed
window or a two-paned window. Both are things I want to do and both
would make it easier to flip between frames with source material,
whether code or text, and code being worked on.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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