Background transparency is not working yet, but I will have a "simulated transparency" for the next build. That is, it duplicates what is currently behind it on the screen when initially displayed. The flaw is that if you have it displayed on top for a long period of time it can get out-of-sync when switching the foreground window/program. The good thing is that this "transparency" should work on Mac and Linux.
Craig, I got soo excited thinking we had proper background transparency, then, reading this was, kind of, crushing
Will we, at some point in the [very near?] future, be able to either specify a hex colour value in the background image to be made transparent, or, just make a background with transparency and have the popup handle it?
The pseudo-transparent effect is not going to work if the display time is set for a long length of time.
The pseudo effect is, imvho, pants in the main MC right click menu too. Why? Invariably, there is a tooltip showing when we right click, which vanishes upon right click, but is captured in the pseudo-transparent background of the right click menu... which is just, wrong, and has bothered me, for literally, years
Thinking about this 'long display time' setting... We currently have a keyboard combo to show the popup, which is good, although, kind of useless unless it's global, but we can tackle that later. We are also going to need a keyboard shortcut, plus an actual button, to
close the popup too. This might require a new MCC command?
Yes, any MCC command should work.
Interesting... Will need to brush up on the commands available and see what can be leveraged here. Great potential.
No specific volume control, but you could add up/down buttons with MCC commands.
Yeah, I suppose. Not as direct, or precise as a slider, but could be made to work.
I could add this capability (version text).
Aye, go on, do it... You know you want to
aaand, finally, for this post...
I do understand that when something like this is being built from scratch, feedback is vital, but, I feel kind of bad at this stage of development because it feels as though mine is predominantly negative atm. Honesty is better though, right?
The transparency setting on overlapping images is working really well still, and I have tried to break it, but so far, without success
-marko.