2013-03-25, 21:53
Hi Guys,
Was wonder if this is possible? What i want to do is on specific windows (like home.xml), i want to be able to "see" my desktop instead of a skin's background wallpaper. I want to do this since sometime during a movie, I want to be able to check the status of some background tasks (handbrake encodes, download status, etc). I know i can back slash + minimize, but dont' really want to leave the XBMC environment; i still want to see all the menu overlays and xbmc dialogs, just the background should be transparent (maybe at specific percentage? that would be nice)
I know this is possible since i've seen this type of behavior on other programs, just don't know if it's doable in xbmc for windows. I don't know how this would be behave on other systems (like iPad), but trying to do it in the skin seems much more attainable for my skillset than looking through code (*shivers*)
Anything you guys can recommend? (i've tried creating a full transparent png in photoshop and putting that as my background, but it didn't work lol) Shot in the dark.
Thanks!
-MS106
Was wonder if this is possible? What i want to do is on specific windows (like home.xml), i want to be able to "see" my desktop instead of a skin's background wallpaper. I want to do this since sometime during a movie, I want to be able to check the status of some background tasks (handbrake encodes, download status, etc). I know i can back slash + minimize, but dont' really want to leave the XBMC environment; i still want to see all the menu overlays and xbmc dialogs, just the background should be transparent (maybe at specific percentage? that would be nice)
I know this is possible since i've seen this type of behavior on other programs, just don't know if it's doable in xbmc for windows. I don't know how this would be behave on other systems (like iPad), but trying to do it in the skin seems much more attainable for my skillset than looking through code (*shivers*)
Anything you guys can recommend? (i've tried creating a full transparent png in photoshop and putting that as my background, but it didn't work lol) Shot in the dark.
Thanks!
-MS106