It’s not clear how your video source works, but it appears to be incompatible with Swing due to Mixing Heavyweight and Lightweight Components. Although awt
components aren’t transparent, you can always draw your own translucent text on the Frame
and do manual hit testing, as suggested below. You might also check to see if your video source API supports Double Buffering and Page Flipping.
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.AlphaComposite;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.FontMetrics;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Insets;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
/** @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6725618 */
public class AlphaFrame extends Frame {
private static final Font font = new Font("Dialog", Font.BOLD, 24);
private float alpha = 1f;
private Rectangle rect = new Rectangle();
public static void main(String[] args) {
AlphaFrame af = new AlphaFrame();
af.setTitle("Translucent Button");
af.setAlpha(0.5f);
af.setForeground(Color.green);
af.setBackground(Color.black);
af.setVisible(true);
}
public AlphaFrame() {
this.setSize(320, 240);
this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
this.setBackground(Color.white);
this.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {
@Override
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
System.exit(0);
}
});
this.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
@Override
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
if (rect.contains(e.getPoint())) {
System.out.println("Pressed.");
}
}
});
repaint();
}
@Override
public void paint(Graphics g) {
super.paint(g);
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
g2.setComposite(AlphaComposite.getInstance(
AlphaComposite.SRC_OVER, alpha));
g2.setColor(getForeground());
g2.setFont(font);
FontMetrics fm = g2.getFontMetrics();
String s = getTitle();
Insets i = getInsets();
int dx = i.left + 10;
int dy = i.top + fm.getHeight() + 10;
Rectangle2D bounds = fm.getStringBounds(s, g);
rect.x = dx + (int) bounds.getX() - 1;
rect.y = dy + (int) bounds.getY() - 1;
rect.width = (int) bounds.getWidth() + 1;
rect.height = (int) bounds.getHeight() + 1;
System.out.println(i + " \n" + bounds + "\n" + rect);
g2.drawRect(rect.x, rect.y, rect.width, rect.height);
g2.drawString(s, dx, dy);
}
public float getAlpha() {
return alpha;
}
public void setAlpha(float alpha) {
this.alpha = alpha;
}
}