Is there a way to add a Drop Shadow to a window?

[FrankL]

Is there a way to add a Drop Shadow behind a window for winamp 3 skins? You know just like the cursors on windows 2000 and xp.

[GLewellen]

yeah, you have your base file with a drop shadow and then have desktop alpha = 1 somewhere in the code, i'll look this up its been awhile.

[edit]
in the player-normal.xml file

code:


<layout id="normal" background="player.background" desktopalpha="1">

  <group id="mainshit"/>

</layout>

[FrankL]

I'm looking for something to make the drop shadow also transparent. The previous method leaves a lot of white edges.

[Vica]

Your code should be something like this:

code:


<layout id="normal" background="player.background.noalpha" alphabackground="player.background.alpha" desktopalpha="1">

  <group id="mainshit"/>

</layout>

player.background.alpha - this is the image that has the dropshadow on it.

player.background.noalpha - this has no dropshadow on it, and no partially transparent areas on it.

Winamap switches between these when deskopalpha is enabled or disabled in the preferences window.

[FrankL]

you can have partially transparent areas!!!???

How do you do this?

[Vica]

a dropshadow is partially transparent... think about it