odd shaped stacks

[magice]

I would like to create an app that is not the standard rectangular window. I had hoped that I could simply use a background graphic with a transparent alpha channel, eliminate the title bar and border and that's all it would require. Unfortunately I have had no luck with this approach. Does anyone know of any tutorials or sample stacks where anything like this was done?

[Klaus]

Hi magice,

check "windowshape" in the dictionary!
You can use any GIF or PNG image with an alpha channel for this, just do:
...
set the windowshape of stack "xyz" to XXXX
## where XXXX is the ID of the image you want to use
...
A "preopenstack" script seems to be the best place for this line


Best

Klaus

[mhoneywill]

See this tutorial

http://runrev.com/developers/lessons-an ... -skinning/

Cheers

Martin

[magice]

Thank you very much, this is exactly what I needed. BTW I thought i had answered this with a thank you 4 days ago, but i guess my post didn't take.