Allow transparent background on editor

[felipenmoura]

When creating a theme, we can set, for example, @background: rgba(29, 31, 33, .5);, but then it will be a lighter gray... If the Brackets background was transparent itself, we could create themes(or even add options) to have transparent background(something like what we can do in our terminal vi/vim for example.

[cheesypoof]

When you say transparent, you mean the ability to see through the Brackets window to whatever is behind it (other windows, desktop, etc...)?

[felipenmoura]

yep. like what we can do with terminal, on linux or mac, for example. Besides the fact that it is cool, and is a good new option for themes, it may also be useful when you have only one screen, and are using the live development, seeing the page changing behind the source code.

[pthiess]

@felipenmoura This is an interesting idea which adds to the editor's potentials, but currently nothing we would be able to spend time on right now.

[felipenmoura]

no problem...let's just have it in mind, for future, perhaps :)

[nym3r0s]

This would be a great feature that I'd love to have. Sometimes, when you are comparing code, this is a life saver. This is one feature that I miss from textmate. Plus, AFAIK Brackets would be the only non-mac text editor to include a transparent background. :)

[basememara]

+1 transparent backgrounds

There's a useful discussion about it in the Atom.io forums: https://discuss.atom.io/t/background-transparency

[maria-logh]

How do we do transparent? I've spent the after-dinner time to see if this can be coded - how can we do it ourselves?

[blackoustic]

+1 for this feature.

[joelkay]

love brackets! would love it even more with this feature :+1:

[lanetteamdharmik]

http://www.ghostwindows.com/

it's look cool

[felipenmoura]

Cool! Looks neat! A friend of mine uses another editor that has this feature and he keeps his wallpaper changing from time to time...so, while he codes, he is looking is wallpapers (nature, clean beautiful stuff).

The problem is that the window itself must offer this support, for us to create a plugin able to do it. I tried it, but couldn't get it to work!

[nethip]

@felipenmoura It was a little straight forward on mac. All you have to do is just add this line of code.

[mainWnd setAlphaValue:.9]; here in brackets-shell code. This have given me the following look and feel.

I have given .9 for testing sake.

Please refer to the this link to know more about how to build brackets-shell.

On Windows, this is a little tricky.

[felipenmoura]

Really cool! Even more interesting if we manage to have only the source code editor, or everything but the source code editor translucent!

[Mr-Skribbls]

+1 for this

[realbill]

This is a feature I would love to see as well. I really like Brackets as it is a multi platform application. I navigate between Windows and Mac workstations frequently. While on the Mac I bounce back and forth between TextMate and Brackets.

Not to take the spotlight away from Brackets, because it is a great program. But if you are a Mac user and transparency is important to you. You might want to check out TextMate. It offers transparency support as well as a ton of modifications.

But yes, +1 for transparency support for Brackets!

[adammorris]

+1, after 10 years of doing this with TextMate I can't imagine how the rest of the world survives without it!

[ritwik12]

@nethip is this feature working on MAC?

[ritwik12]

Linux terminal and Windows Command prompt consists this feature .. So why can't brackets. Does anyone tried?

[KevinUme]

+1 for this