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Option to make unexplored tiles transparent

PostPosted: Friday, 16th March 2012, 07:03
by FatBoy
Possibility to switch black (unexplored) tiles into transparent ones could be awesome (as for me).
Sometimes movies or TV are on the screen to but crawl is almost fullscreen so I'm tired of reducing movie or TV windows.
May there are any ways to DIY and if so I'd be grateful if somebody tell me.

May be I'm not alone and such a switch will be useful for many peoples?

Sorry for my English.

Re: Option to make unexplored tiles transparent

PostPosted: Friday, 16th March 2012, 10:40
by hxy
watching tv while crawling is a sure way to YASD ;)

Re: Option to make unexplored tiles transparent

PostPosted: Friday, 16th March 2012, 11:14
by FatBoy
My brain is dual cored

Re: Option to make unexplored tiles transparent

PostPosted: Friday, 16th March 2012, 15:20
by mumra
Unexplored tiles are transparent.

It's just the background of the window or web browser that's black.

Re: Option to make unexplored tiles transparent

PostPosted: Friday, 16th March 2012, 17:41
by FatBoy
So may be it is possible to make background transparent?

Re: Option to make unexplored tiles transparent

PostPosted: Friday, 16th March 2012, 18:51
by ElectricAlbatross
Ask Google/Mozilla/Apple/whomever makes your browser.

Re: Option to make unexplored tiles transparent

PostPosted: Friday, 16th March 2012, 18:52
by mumra
Technically, it's possible. Anything is possible.

But, it's extremely difficult, and considering how distracting it'd be having video playing through Crawl's background, I doubt any developer is going to bother investing weeks of work to achieve this.

Just buy a second monitor.

Re: Option to make unexplored tiles transparent

PostPosted: Friday, 16th March 2012, 18:55
by ElectricAlbatross
For the record, I also Crawl and watch TV at the same time. I guess the reason I have no screen problems is because I play Console :P

Re: Option to make unexplored tiles transparent

PostPosted: Friday, 16th March 2012, 20:32
by galehar
Topic moved to Interface & Software.
And no I highly doubt anybody will find it interesting to implement this feature request. Just play in a smaller window (read options_guide.txt if you don't know how to) or use a second monitor.

Re: Option to make unexplored tiles transparent

PostPosted: Thursday, 24th May 2012, 13:29
by palin
galehar wrote:Topic moved to Interface & Software.
And no I highly doubt anybody will find it interesting to implement this feature request. Just play in a smaller window (read options_guide.txt if you don't know how to) or use a second monitor.


Or learn to play console ;-)

Re: Option to make unexplored tiles transparent

PostPosted: Friday, 25th May 2012, 01:13
by Patashu
It's technically possible to implement, isn't it? GDI+ lets you specify parts of the window to make transparent.