Alpha Plug-In click-through...

[MrZebra]

I really love the Alpha Plug-In except for that bug that makes either my taskbar or desktop semi-transparent but it seemed to have stopped doing that for now...

I like the fact it lets you see what's behind but one thing that remains a problem is that if a button is under QCD, it can't be clicked.

Is there a way to allow it to work so that only when you are holding say CTRL, QCD becomes front and it's controls can be clicked (And the window becomes opaque while the mouse is over) and if you don't hold CTRL, then you can click whatever is in your active window behind QCD.

Would be very handy since the login/logout button at the top of this page is behind where I usually put QCD.

Is this even doable?

[Toe]

I'm thinking most likely not. While it's not terribly dificult to make a window transparent (it's a feature built into Win2K/XP), making a window transfer clicks to whatever the hell happens to be beneath it at the exact pixel location clicked.... I don't want to say impossible, but almost certainly unfeasible. :-/

[tupperduck]

Maybe not?

Actual Transparent Windows (www.actualtools.com) reportedly has a "click-through" (and "drag-through") feature.

I haven't used the software, so I don't know how well/if it works.

Food for thought, though.

[shaohao]

Maybe not?

Actual Transparent Windows (www.actualtools.com) reportedly has a "click-through" (and "drag-through") feature.

I haven't used the software, so I don't know how well/if it works.

Food for thought, though.

Cool! I'll add in next version (Maybe, If I can)

[Toe]

Ey, if you can get it working, more power to ya man! I assume you'd almost have to turn off opaque on mouseover for this to be of any use...

[tupperduck]

Hey WOW, that is cool!

I can't fathom how you got it working so fast. Must be magic. :)

One potential problem-- if you are in "ghost mode" (good name *snicker*) there is no way to get back to QCD unless you use keyboard commands. Namely, every time you try to click on QCD itself to select it, the click just goes "through" it.

Maybe there should be a warning label or somethin'?

[shaohao]

Hey WOW, that is cool!

I can't fathom how you got it working so fast. Must be magic. :)

One potential problem-- if you are in "ghost mode" (good name *snicker*) there is no way to get back to QCD unless you use keyboard commands. Namely, every time you try to click on QCD itself to select it, the click just goes "through" it.

Maybe there should be a warning label or somethin'?

I'm still wondering how to solve it. Use Ctrl key or others. any good ideas?

[MrZebra]

I'm still wondering how to solve it. Use Ctrl key or others. any good ideas? That would be the best way I think... Or maybe make it configurable in case someone would want to use shift instead of CTRL.

Or maybe if QCD is the active window (using ALT-TAB to make QCD the active window) then it would reappear on Mouse-Over.

I haven't tried the new version you posted yet, it's 2am, I'll try tomorrow (Well, techinically today)

[tupperduck]

CTRL+mouse click on QCD might do the trick.

A purely key combination might be tricky from the standpoint that a lot of other programs use CTRL keys, so finding a unique one might be a problem.