Transparency

[itix]

What kind of transparency you mean and where? There is no support for transparency in layers.library and thus it is not possible have windows with transparency unless you hack it into programs. Icons are rendered by programs and there it is easier.

[itix]

I doubt AfA supports "real" transparency (translucency) since updating contents behind translucent layer is great pain without HW acceleration and support from the system. AfA extends CGX with WritePixelArrayAlpha() function which makes it easier to draw images with alpha channel, though.

In menus not having real translucency is not great deal anyway (to most users).

[itix]

I'm not talking about totally transparent windows. I just mean, basically, non-rectangular windows. So VisualPrefs themes with rounded corners, transparent dock, AmiNetRadio themes with transparent backgorunds etc.

It requires that layers system supports transparency. Windows are defined as a rectangle (x1,y1 to x2,y2) and that is how they are. You need an API extension to define window shape.

Transparent (translucent) dock is possible in 3.9 but without support from the operating system it is tricky and does not always work well.

[itix]

I could be wrong, but no Amiga does Transparency..............what your probably seeing is the menu gets dithered or pixels are eliminted so that you can see through it.

Not at all. For example MagicMenu implements transparency (translucency) without dithering. Menu is simply blended to the background. It is not real transparency however, the background does not update while menu is open.

With CGX (CGX4?) it is possible have shaped windows but it is not same as transparency...