I looked at your flash, and wasn't sure exactly what it was supposed to do, different from what I suggested earlier. Also the text in the "floater" seemed to move around inside the rectangle as the rectangle moved. I don't know if that was one of the things you want to accomplish, probably not. Also, I did not see any "transparency effects" in your flash.

But setting aside the transparency and alpha-layering stuff, which I'm not sure about in Tk, you could simulate your flash in Tk, by just creating an a new 'image' on your existing canvas, and setting tags on it, to make it "draggable".

Perhaps, if you told us what this is supposed to perform, it would be easier. Are you trying to "custom-drag" images to positions on a canvas, to build a new composite image?

I have seen one other thing which may be what you are looking for. It's in the TkZinc demo, and is called the "magic lens", (it is #6 under Small Applications).

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re^3: Masking Tk Canvas by zentara
in thread Masking Tk Canvas by avo

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