Re: macOS (Cocoa) alpha-background

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Jon Rubens <jonathan.rubens@gmail.com> writes:

> I’ve been jealous of the alpha-background feature for Cairo builds so
> I took it upon myself to try and implement the same on my macOS build.
>
> I’ve got it working to some extent and I’m looking for someone with
> some experience to help finish this implementation.
>
> What isn’t working yet:
>
> * Main window face background is solid. I messed around in
>  src/macfont.m and did achieve transparency but it also caused a
>  bunch of strange behavior. I don’t understand the CoreGraphics
>  implementation well. I don’t know why the modeline text is
>  implemented differently from the window text. I almost think the NS
>  build is wildly outdated.
> * I do not know if what I changed is done in an effective way, I’m not
>  a developer to any extent just someone who is too impatient to wait
>  for someone else to add this feature. This also means that my patch
>  file is invalid in some way because I’m teaching myself as I go
>  along.

Thanks, but it is rather difficult for anyone to help improve your patch
when much of it has been encoded into HTML, rendering it impossible to
apply.  Please send the patch as an attachment instead.