Non-rectangular (shaped) main window that has non-rectangular child windows.

Hello,

I have started to learn how to create shaped, non-rectangular windows with the XShape* functions.

I can now create a shaped main window. I set or create a bitmap mask for it and display the window. This solutions works very well, even when I use Cairographics to draft the window's shape. I mostly use XLib though.

See an example 1 (moma's posting):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3384231#post3384231

Example 2 (moma's posting):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3384886#post3384886
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Now, I want to go further.

I have tried to create a shaped main-window and put some shaped child controls (child windows) on it. But I cannot make it work (the child windows ar enot visible) because I do not understand all the intricatenesses of the XShape* functions.

XShape* functions:
http://linux.die.net/man/3/xshapecombinemask

Please, tell me how to do it (a non-rectangular main-window with many non-rectangular child controls). Can you provide an example?

Do I have to sum up the masks of childwindows and put it on the main-window?

Help and you will get the code in return :-)

TIA.

// moma
http://www.futuredesktop.org

PS. cannot live in a rectangular (desktop) world anymore.

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