Seeing through LOVE window

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Azhukar
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Seeing through LOVE window

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Now that there is borderless window mode, how feasible would it be to let the draw surface itself be transparent?

As in, when you set background color to 0 alpha, you see your desktop.

Perhaps even moving the window itself from within LOVE. Desktop toys made in LOVE? The applications would be hilarious.
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Re: Seeing through LOVE window

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Unfortunately that's not possible right now. I believe it could be implemented in OS X (I haven't actually tried though), but I don't know about Windows and Linux. It would also likely have a relatively large performance impact.
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Re: Seeing through LOVE window

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Can be done with garden variety Lua BUT I've found that background alpha effects foreground alpha.
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