Transparent Browser

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Is it possible to change the current white base of the Browser to transparent?

I am not referring to displayed pictures. but the actual base color of the frame.
 
Hi,
I'm not sure that this is exactly what you're after, but with WinXP or 2K,
PowerMenu from http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/ can do
this (sort of) and a few other things.

Hope this helps,
Don
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Incony said:
Is it possible to change the current white base of the Browser to transparent?

I am not referring to displayed pictures. but the actual base color of the
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frame.
 
Don Varnau said:
Hi,
I'm not sure that this is exactly what you're after, but with WinXP or 2K,
PowerMenu from http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/ can do
this (sort of) and a few other things.

Hope this helps,
Don
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At the moment i am using a hot key method from Auto Hot Key:

http://www.autohotkey.com/

This enables more precise control over the transparency setting and has a lot of other very usefull features.. i found this since posting. I have downloaded the program you suggest to see though.. unfortunately they both cause the whole browser to be transparent.. not just the white background.. but it does work very well.. Its like an overlay.. and the web page though barely visible is still fully functional.. and the agent is still able to interact fully with a mapped document on the transparency.

The hot key method has a self compiler too so one gets portable hot keys.. this is usefull since they can be preconfigured for the right settings..

Thanks to Jon on Mozilla forums for that.. here is his method:

Try this-

Download Autohotkey from here-
http://www.autohotkey.com/download/

Install it and create a new text document. Copy this code into the new text document-

Code:

SetTitleMatchMode, 2
WinSet, Transparent, 200, Internet Explorer



save the document with a .ahk extension (rather than .txt) e.g. "transparent.ahk"

Run The Internet Explorer window you want to make transparent then run the .ahk file

"Internet Explorer" is the title of the window you want to make transparent. This can be a word any where in the title.
"200" is the amount of transparency. This can be 0 for completely invisible up to 255 for not transparent.

(It can also be compiled to an exe file)



As jon says compiling it.. makes it very usefull.. and there is so much stuff with AutoHotKey that it can do.. i think thats the way to go... unless someone has a way of making just the white part of the Browser transparent.

Regards and thank you for the help. i appreciate it.
 
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