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	ffe drop window images

    The floating window is created from an image. A few samples are provided.
    You could use a regular rectangular image, but the facility is designed to
    be used with a partly transparent image, so you can have some useful shape
    floating on your desktop, something that fits well into a corner, or along
    an edge, or resembles Jessica Alba, or whatever.

	Here is a selection of images you can use for your ffe drop window.

	They all have a transparent background, the outlying areas. Most have
	transparent "middle bits", too. Some only /appear/ to.

    ffe produces a proper transparent window with full alpha blending - drop
    shadows will look lovely, with beautifully rendered semi-transparencies.
    This enables you to produce some lovley, and useful "shapes".

    Each image is designed for a different scenario. The "strips" are designed
    to sit along the edges of a variety of monitors. Of course, you can have
    them hanging over the edge, no problem. The HUGE strips look great with only
    one part showing, like the green-yellow part.

    I have included the source image for these strips, a Paint Shop Pro file.

    The quarter reels are designed to sit in the corner of your desktop. They
    come in big and small sizes. I got the reel at pixmap.com.

    Of course, you can use the full-sized reel image and simply push it off the
    edge of your desktop, but these corner shapes do look cool in a folder,
    don't they?

        drop-movie-to-ffe-SOLID.png

    Is a special case. The outside (curved) edges of the image are completely
    transparent, if you click outside the shape (yet still within the
    "rectangle"), the click will pass straight through, however..

    The middle section, although it "looks" transparent, is in fact a black
    layer set to 1% opacity in my image editor before exporting to a PNG. Use it
    as your drop window and you will find that the centre area behaves just like
    the visible parts of the image - you can click and drag to move, it accepts
    files, and so on.

    Basically, any part that isn't /completey/ transparent, is "active".

    There may also be a Jessica Alba Bottom-Left corner image which uses the
    same technique.

    Any PNG will work, but only PNG's with proper transparencies will produce
    the desired "shape" effect. As the Americans say, knock yourself out!

    You could feasibly create an image which covers your entire desktop, with a
    border around the edge accepting files (at 1-100% opacity) and the middle
    completely transparent, enabling you to work as normal!

    Or an image 2px smaller than your desktop, so you can position it at 1x1 and
    have a spare pixel around the edge to get to coolbars, taskbar and so on.

    Or put the drop window on a different moitor, or have it look like an icon
    on your dekstop, or whatever you damn-well like.

    Have fun!

    ;o)

    ps. where images are not my own creations, I have put the credit in the file
    name. For some images, like the DangerMouse logo, I could not find
    attribution info.

    pps. You can now also use animated GIF files.


    ffe at corz dot org 2015