Transparent BufferedImage

[Mike Westerfield]

I'm trying to create an initially transparent Image. Among other
things, I have tried

BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(width, height,
BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);

This works fine running under Mac OS/X, but when running under Windows
XP Personal using Sun's Java 1.4.1_02, this gives me an image that is
initially gray, and nothing I've tried will clear it to transparent.

Can anyone tell me how to create an initially transparent image
running under Java 1.4.1_02 on Windows?

Can anyone at least confirm that this is a bug? If so, I'll pass it on
to Sun.

Mike Westerfield

 

[Andrew Thompson]

I'm trying to create an initially transparent Image. Among other
things, I have tried ....
This works fine running under Mac OS/X, but when running under Windows
XP Personal using Sun's Java 1.4.1_02, this gives me an image that is
initially gray, and nothing I've tried will clear it to transparent.

...ermm. Are you sure you are not seeing straight through
your transparent image to the gray color of the underlying
component?

[ There have been various discussions re 'transparent applets'
where ultimately you get to the same gray color (because
applets cannot be transparent). ]