From: klee@synoptics.com (Ken Lee)
Subject: Re: transparent widgets--how?
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In article AA16720@ntep2.ntep.tmg.nec.co.jp, cerna@ntep.tmg.nec.co.JP (Alexander Cerna (SV)) writes:
>I need to write an application which does annotation notes
>on existing documents.  The annotation could be done several
>times by different people.  The idea is something like having
>several acetate transparencies stacked on top of each other
>so that the user can see through all of them.  I've seen
>something like this being done by the oclock client.
>Could someone please tell me how to do it in Xt?
>Thank you very much.

The oclock widget was written using the SHAPE extension.
You can do the same in your widgets.  Few current widgets
support SHAPE, so you'll have to subclass them to add that
functionality.

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Ken Lee, klee@synoptics.com
