Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: how to write this simple program? Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:13:21 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <7466d6e0-1e5d-422e-abdc-9798818b6ad9@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:12:28 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="858a9d65d95f4ea4d355bd116aa2cdbf"; logging-data="9799"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19QbyDNrKe7T21+XVnyecno" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:SE4ZstrbZNXljFVDgutLznZaYoA= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:31410 On 3/29/2015 9:23 PM, John wrote: > > "opaque background", you mean the rectangle containing the words will block what users are viewing, for 300 milliseconds? (If coded in Java)It cannot be set to transparent? Sorry; forgot to mention this. You can try the setOpacity() method, although different platforms handle it differently (and some may not support it at all). Give it a whirl, see if it helps. -- esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid "Don't be afraid of work. Make work afraid of you." -- TLM