'Pass through' mouse events?

Now that transparency is possible, it would be really awesome if it were possible to use something like CSS’s pointer-events property to allow passing through mouse events to underlying windows.

For example, think of a drawing tool. You’d make a 100% wide and high, transparent, frameless ‘window’ and add your content to it. But the user would be able to use their computer as normal whilst this was active.

(I’ve confirmed that pointer-events: none; doesn’t work on the html and/or body elements - it doesn’t pass the clicks etc through)

This would be amazing to implement - is it possible?

[baongoc124]

Hey guys, I’m not a nwjs user but I googled and found this issue. Anw, I think I have real example of a click-through window in Linux. It’s in the notify-osd program of Ubuntu. You can see pretty clear how they get it done here https://github.com/dkasak/notify-osd-customizable/blob/master/src/bubble.c#L1608 . And another requirement is that the window’s type must be popup.

[trappedinspacetime]

@jtg-gg ECERE is open source in github https://github.com/ecere/ecere-sdk Anyway I found a more simple click through example in Linux. It’s xeyes Open terminal and type xeyes it’s preinstalled. Here is the source code ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/unsupported/programs/xeyes/ I could compile it like gcc -o xeyes xeyes.c Eyes.c transform.c -lX11 -lXt -lXext -lXmu -lm