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Bug 2999

Summary: adding transparent windows
Product: SDL Reporter: Delta D <deltagaming20>
Component: videoAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED ABANDONED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2 CC: icculus, philipp.wiesemann
Version: don't know   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Delta D 2015-06-02 16:41:09 UTC 
I'm kinda writing on behalf of LOVE2D (http://love2d.org), requesting that you guys make it possible for window transparency (where you make the window transparrent and stuff, unless you code there to be objects in the window). If you guys want to see the bug report on love2d's website, its here(please do it anyway): https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/issue/1049/background-transparency
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2015-06-03 03:44:11 UTC 
We probably won't do exactly what you describe (because it can't be done on most platforms anyhow), but basic window transparency is waiting to be merged into SDL:

    https://hg.icculus.org/icculus/SDL-gui-backend/rev/d2a46f4e421b

But that's literally the entire window being alpha blended, not the window minus parts of your rendering.

--ryan.
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2018-08-06 21:20:24 UTC 
Hello, and sorry if you're getting dozens of copies of this message by email.

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Thanks,
--ryan.