Update: with the js_ReaScriptAPI extension, these stylish graphics can easily be created
Transparent, overlaid graphics are
de rigueur for stylish, professional-looking GUIs.
As an example, a transparent GUI over an automation envelope in Studio One:
In order for ReaScripts to draw such transparent overlaid GUIs, two API improvements are required:
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Option for transparent background: At present, the backgrounds of ReaScript GUIs are opaque black. Perhaps gfx.init can gain an additional (seventh, boolean) argument that indicates whether the background should be transparent.
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Option for no titlebar: This has already been requested in the thread
Titleless window? in the JSFX and ReaScript subforum. An empty string or 0 as first argument to gfx.init can indicate that the GUI should not have any titlebar.