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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?

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

See this tutorial

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

Cheers

Martin

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.