>Where did you learn this voodoo?
I had tried it while at BNR (2009) and it worked, so I did not look into other
methods at that point, nor did I ask about it.
Yes I am using NSWindowController, but clearly not 100% correctly.
>I suspect you want to do [aboutWindow setOpaque:NO] instead of this
On Nov 7, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Chris Paveglio wrote:
> I have a custom about box, and it's sort of like Adobe apps, where it's not a
> traditional window but a graphic/image I made that is a shape like a hexagon
> with a drop shadow.
> It works fine and I can call it and I disable the window backgr
Yes I did have that set... but when I unchecked it and rebuilt and ran it
again, then the window has a black rectangle around it with no transparency. I
tried moving most of those code lines to awakeFromNib, but none were successful.
>Sounds like your window is initially visible before it's had
Sounds like your window is initially visible before it's had its alpha set; try
turning off "visible at launch" in the nib.
On Nov 7, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Chris Paveglio wrote:
> I have a custom about box, and it's sort of like Adobe apps, where it's not a
> traditional window but a graphic/image
I have a custom about box, and it's sort of like Adobe apps, where it's not a
traditional window but a graphic/image I made that is a shape like a hexagon
with a drop shadow.
It works fine and I can call it and I disable the window background by setting
the window alpha to 0.999.
One little tiny