[mishav]

I am wondering how i can enable transparency or translucency on everyday applications. For example it would be interesting to make iTunes backround transperent, or instead of the very top of IE being transperent when not active I could somehow enable the status bar to be transperent.

[Angus_D]

Short answer: You can't.
Long answer: You fool the window server into giving you write permissions to the other application's windows, and set their alpha values. Or you load yourself into that application, and modify its windows using its own connection to the window server. Either way, you'll need to be a relatively experienced programmer.

[Lew]

WindowShadeX allows you to make individual windows transparent

[mishav]

Originally posted by GFive:
WindowShadeX allows you to make individual windows transparent

Thanks GFive, I am on my way to check it out.

[Peter]

be sure to register otherwise the program gets ... annoying

[ryju]

does windowshades slow down the mac at all? Or will it be fine on my iMac DV?

[Peter]

my 700Mhz G3 makes the windows translucent more or less instantly, so I guess it would be fine for you.
Note: If you do not register you have only one hour of use before you get a big register me banner across the screen.

[Adam Betts]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
Short answer: You can't.
Long answer: You fool the window server into giving you write permissions to the other application's windows, and set their alpha values. Or you load yourself into that application, and modify its windows using its own connection to the window server. Either way, you'll need to be a relatively experienced programmer.

Really, you could do that by using WindowShade from Unsanity. I'd love to use it (I registered it) but APE seem to be slowing down my system badly