CODEWITHSUNDEEP
cncursescurses
Vincent Bechmann
Vincent Bechmann

Reputation: 33

Overlapping windows with transparency in ncurses

Let's say I have a background window and a foreground window. Is there a way for these to overlap so that an "empty character" on the foreground signifies transparency? This means that it would display the background window on that character only.

I'm sure there are ways of implementing this myself. However, I don't want to reinvent the wheel if something like this already exists. If I'm using the wrong library altogether, please tell me that.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 260

Answers (1)

Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey

Reputation: 54455

No, curses won't do this for you (nor would any of the likely-suggested alternatives). You could write an application using curses (or any of the et cetera) to do this, but that makes the question out of scope for Stack Overflow.

Upvotes: 0

Related Questions