Translucent/Shaped Windows

[Doug Zwick]

Anthony Petrov wrote:

> I'm a bit late on this. I just want to clarify one thing:
>
> On 7/17/2012 4:08 AM, Doug Zwick wrote:
>> through). I am running with 1.7.0_05. I did notice that calls to
>> Window.setShape throw an exception:
>>
>> java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: PERPIXEL_TRANSPARENT
>> translucency is not supported.
>>
>> However,
>> GraphicsDevice.isWindowTranslucencySupported(PERPIXEL_TRANSLUCENT)
>
> This is expected. Please note the difference between:
>
> PERPIXEL_TRANSPARENT
> and
> PERPIXEL_TRANSLUCENT
>
> These two are two different constants. The former covers setShape(), and
> the later - setBackground()/setWindowOpaque() translucency modes. They
> are independent.

Can you provide any guidance on whether Java 7 for OS X will support Window.setShape, or continue to use the alpha-based mechanism from Java 6?

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