Skia renderer background transparency?

vvvv gamma question
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Hi!
Is it possible to render a skia renderers background transparent? I want to overlay the renderers content on top of my other windows/desktop. Thanks!

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Have a look here:

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Thanks. So maybe this will point me in the right direction:

We’ll see.

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You can also check out P/Invoke.

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Hmm, this seems to be a bit to hard for me. Maybe @microdee can share a thought if what he did in this post can be made available to a noobish vvvv/skia user like me?

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if you don’t mind to make transparent the whole window rather than just the renderer I would try winforms.
You can set the transparency of a window via the System.Windows.Forms. This is how I deal with it at least :D

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Would anybody be willing to share a patch that demonstrates this?

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You need to reference Windows.Forms (CTRL-SHIFT-E)

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Then use SetOpacity

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Thank you, also very good to know!

But what about setting the alpha of the renderers background only? Is there somebody who could share how to achieve this?

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oh i thought you were asking for the forms, nevermind :)

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Is it possible to hide Titlebar and border? Then it would accomplish the same
like STRG+F8 in beta

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@schlonzo with SetFormBorderStyle, but you wont be able to move it around anymore

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Well, am I right that there must be a solution for dragging it around nonetheless? Node Browser and Splash Screen are movable as well and dont have a border nor a title bar…

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this is custom code that we run, we capture all mouse events on non-interactive areas and set the window position with that.