Volume slider over top of transparent backround

[BlueMonkey00]

Say I make rectangular winamp backround picture and leave a strip of transparent area at the bottom of the backround. When I load this skin, I see the desktop through the transparent area. Cool. Now if I change the xml so that the volume slider is in the transparent area...boom!...it's gone. Anyone understand my blathering? Can anyone help me put a volume slider hanging out in space? Thanks.

-Blu

[Naamloos]

YOu can't place anything on something without a background...
I guess you can do it with scripts...

[Riksruin]

try either adding the part for where you want the slider in2 the background .png file,

[BlueMonkey00]

no*name,

Would I load the volume slider into a layer or a region using a script?

-blu

[Francis]

Originally posted by BlueMonkey00
Say I make rectangular winamp backround picture and leave a strip of transparent area at the bottom of the backround. When I load this skin, I see the desktop through the transparent area. Cool. Now if I change the xml so that the volume slider is in the transparent area...boom!...it's gone. Anyone understand my blathering? Can anyone help me put a volume slider hanging out in space? Thanks.

-Blu

You need to put a layer behind your slider and give it the sysregion="1" xml parameter. When shown it'll add its region (with alpha) to the region of the whole window. When hiden the region will be removed from it.

Francis.

[lunarboy1]

does sysregion param work in Beta 1? I remember that it didn't work in the previous alphas. Also, can groups be outside the sysregion?

[Naamloos]

*addition* without a bg layer;)