Re: patch 1.4.5.3 --> 1.4.5.4

Brandon Beattie (bbeattie@linkexplorer.com)
Wed, 6 May 1998 17:23:25 -0600 (MDT)


For the transparency, I would like to make the wharf totally transparent,
except for the icons which are in each button section.  (ie: only the icon
for that button will show up, and for the rest of the square I can see the
image that is there from xv --root --....)  I would also like to have the
title bar transparent in some spots (it, you can see the root image on
both sides of where the text is.)

Are these possible?

--Brandon

On Wed, 6 May 1998, David Mihm wrote:

> 	A bug exists that makes the 129/130 not function properly until
> 1.4.5.2, I'd suggest you at least patch to 1.4.5.3 (easy to patch from
> there here on out).
> 	Let me see if I understand you correctly.  Concerning the wharf,
> you have a folder with a pixmap and the 3dots.xpm; like:
> 
> *Wharf AfterStep HAL-Eye.xpm,~/pixmaps.usr/three-dots.xpm Folders
> 
> And the wharf "button" background is not what you have set via the?
> 
> *WharfBgColor           grey50
>  
> The wharf will mot be transparent per se, only the icons are able to be
> transparent.  The 129/130 is for the menu (right click desktop) *only*.  I
> think you might be misuderstanding what all the setting are for, best bet
> is to make one change at a time and notice what it does - make notes about
> it in the feel/look/etc file.
> 	If this is not what you meant, feel free to ask again, differently
> :)
> 
>  On Wed, 6 May 1998, Brandon Beattie
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get transparency working on the wharf and title bar. I tried
> > 129 and 130 (and 128) with the 3dots.xpm on the wharf, but it's either
> > black or gray.. any ideas on whats wrong? I'm using 1.4.5/nopatch.  
> > 
> > --Brandon
> > 
> > On Tue, 5 May 1998, David Mihm wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, not to sound ungreatful but... this is a terrible patch.  Removing
> > > files and then re-adding the same files in the patch - what's that all
> > > about?  And the BUGS, I guess removing the "buggy" functionality is one
> > > way to remove the bugs; not what I would have chosen though.
> > > 
> > > As for one, the feel 130 (transparent) toggle for the menus moving to 129
> > > (was one pixmap entire menu). I always run my window manager and, as it
> > > was under 1.4.5.3 - it was buggy, but still worked!  As I see it, my X is
> > > always up and once you went theough the motions of using:
> > > 	TextureTypes     128        128      128       128       128
> > > then initializing it, then going back to:
> > > 	TextureTypes     128        128      128       129       128
> > > then menu had the entire pixmap.  The bug in this was if you
> > > re-initialized the look.file - it lost it and went transparent - with the
> > > still *unacceptible* bug of not removing the highlight when transparent!
> > > Personally I'd rather wait a couple weeks for a patch that fixed things
> > > not removed and replaced them with other still buggy functions.
> > > 
> > > I've went back to using the 1.4.5.3 afterstep binary inconjunction with
> > > all other 1.4.5.4 binaries - if anyone else sees it as I do.  All is going
> > > well so far.
> > > 
> > >  Anyway, enough of my venting - I wouldn't use anything else,
> > > so I'm just expressing myself - hope it wasn't taken incorrectly. :)
> > > 
> > > p.s. A changelog would be nice too; sure I could just look at the patch,
> > > but this one made no sense....okay that file is being removed...ah,
> > > no...wait, it's getting added again...hmmm. :)
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