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Hugh Savoie
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Joined: Oct 16, 2001
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How/can I make an applet background transparent?
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Marilyn de Queiroz
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Joined: Jul 22, 2000
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Is it an Applet or a JApplet? Only lightweight components can be transparent. All of the "heavyweight" AWT components are opaque.

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John Zukowski
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You can't.
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John Zukowski Author of "Definitive Guide to Swing for Java 2" and "Java Collections"

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