Fully transparent windows with PyGame have their own advantage while building many games and apps via Python. Thus in order to achieve the functionality of the transparent window that allows the user to see behind a running screen.
For example:
Geek want to design an app, in which they can see the background screen of the other windows. Thus in order to achieve this, he can use PyGame libraries and windows libraries of Python.
Required modules and Libraries:
pip install pygame
pip install pywin32api
pip install win32con
pip install win32gui
Stepwise Implementation:
Step 1: Import all the required files, libraries, and modules.
Python3
import pygame as pyimport win32apiimport win32conimport win32gui |
Step 2: Initialize the PyGame module and libraries. And declare the PyGame window screen. With the mode of the desired window size. And declaring the windows graphical user interface.
Python3
py.init() # initialize the pygame windowwindow_screen = py.display.set_mode((700, 450))# for borderless window use pygame.Noframe# size of the pygame window will be of width 700 and height 450hwnd = py.display.get_wm_info()["window"]# Getting information of the current active windowwin32gui.SetWindowLong(hwnd, win32con.GWL_EXSTYLE, win32gui.GetWindowLong( hwnd, win32con.GWL_EXSTYLE) | win32con.WS_EX_LAYERED) |
Step 3: Set window transparency color and the text to be displayed on the current window of PyGame. In this, we will be also using the “hwnd” variable that we have created in step2. Declare the font color and size for the font.
Python3
win32gui.SetLayeredWindowAttributes(hwnd, win32api.RGB(255, 0, 128), 0, win32con.LWA_COLORKEY)# This will set the opacity and transparency color key of a layered windowfont = py.font.SysFont("Times New Roman", 54)# declare the size and font of the text for the windowtext = []# Declaring the array for storing the texttext.append((font.render("Transparent Window", 0, (255, 100, 0)), (20, 10))) text.append((font.render("Press Esc to close the window", 0, (255, 100, 100)), (20, 250)))# Appending the text in the array |
Step 4: Now we will create a function that will display the text we want in our window.
Python3
# Function to display the textdef show_text(): for t in text: # For loop for calling every element in the text window_screen.blit(t[0], t[1]) # Blit is for block transfer |
Step 5: Main while loop that will run the program and make the PyGame window active till the escape button or the cross button is pressed. Fill the PyGame window with the transparent color declared above. And calling the show_text() function.
Python3
# Main while loop for the programdone = 0while not done: # Accessing the event if any occurred for event in py.event.get(): # Checking if quit button is pressed or not if event.type == py.QUIT: # If quit then store true done = 1 # Checking if the escape button is pressed or not if event.type == py.KEYDOWN: # If the escape button is pressed then store true in the variable if event.key == py.K_ESCAPE: done = 1 # Transparent background window_screen.fill((255,0,128)) # Calling the show_text function show_text() # Checking for the update in the display py.display.update() |
Output:
Fully transparent window with PyGame.
