Download [TOP] Transparent Note For Windows
Roxann Monier
Recently I started to keep an evernote To Do list on my desktop on the right side. It's a narrow note and I have it running the full height of the screen. It's nice to have there. But I got to thinking how much nicer it would be if I could eliminate the taskbar space with a "minimize to tray" option that would just let me bouble-click the evernote icon in the system tray to bring it on top without taking up the taskbar realestate. Or have the option to reverse that and single click to bring it forward and double click to bring up the evernote app (even better implementation). Also, if I could control the color and transparency of that note, that would be very nice. Then I could have a perpetual, translucent note or two on my desktop at all times. Even nicer would be the ability to have it "always" on top so that all my windows open within the remaining space so it's always there to the right. I can think of dozens of ways that this could be useful.
You don't mention which Windows, but pending upon EN deploying such an enhancement (or not), in Win 10 when you hover over the EN icon in the taskbar all open windows are displayed and you can click on whichever one you want to then appear on the desktop.
There are many different note taking applications on the market, but few of them are transparent. That is where the Transparent Note application comes in. You can choose to make the entire application invisible, have it always on top, or turn it off altogether. Let us take a closer look at this application. How can we use it? Here are some helpful tips to make it more functional. Read on to learn more. We've also written a quick review of this amazing application.
Another great feature of the Transparent Note application is its transparency. It allows you to make your notes completely transparent. The application is free to download, and the free version allows you to make one note at a time. If you'd like to have an unlimited amount of notes, you can purchase the Pro version. While the free version is limited to one note, it has an unlimited number of features. In addition to its transparent nature, it has a checkmark feature, so you can easily mark your favorite notes.
I realize something like this has been asked before, but I would like to create an app with UI elements atop a transparent window (basically, an app without a window frame and with transparent background).
Which is the most minimal text editor that can (automatically, if possible) save anything I type to a /.clipboard file? I have Openbox set up to "skip_taskbar" any windows with the "bgterm" title, and I'd like to open a transparent terminal on the desktop that can directly edit this file.
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Problem: However the problem is that all windows are affected by the transparency, that means if I were to open lets say the settings and then the community plugins, all the windows would overlap making the text very difficult to read.
My experience with this plugin has been very limited and I came to know about it when I had the exact opposite problem with my Notepad++: my Notepad++ window became unexpectedly transparent. I was able to remove the transparency by unflagging the 'Make my window transparent' option from the Plugin->TopMost menu in NotePad++.
TopMost allows to set the main Notepad++ window as a topmost window so it can stay on top of other windows even when it is not active. This plugin sync with Notepad++ own stay on top functionality and allows to remember the setting between restarts as well as to show a toolbar button. Author: Franco Stellari
We are adding support for transparency as well, including the ability to open and save transparent PNGs! When working with a single layer, you will notice a checkerboard pattern on the canvas indicating the portions of the image that are transparent. Erasing any content from the canvas now truly erases the content instead of painting the area white. When working with multiple layers, if you erase content on one layer, you will reveal the content in layers underneath.
Some of you may know that there is a Windows API function that can be called to make a set color act transparent to the Windows OS. A set of VIs were published to aid in making this call and the originals can be found in Darren's Weekly Nugget here.
I made one change to the Transparent Window.vi (which I included as attachment) where I changed the color hex value to a control so that I could input the color. My first simple experiment, also attached, worked but lead me to one of the first of the caveats. Anything the same color as the set color also goes transparent. Selecting white or black as the color will cause the LabVIEW Run, Stop, and other buttons to become partially transparent and difficult to click on. So, it is better to use some odd color like pink/fuchsia. This was difficult because it made the color box in my first experiment go transparent and then it could no longer be selected.
After each run of the simple test, I closed and restarted the VI to reset the transparency. I began to change the color and noticed not all colors would visually show as transparent but the color was still transparent to the Windows OS. Clicking on that VI caused my links on my desktop to be activated as if it was transparent. So I decided I needed a way to see which colors would both act and show visually transparent.