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I want to make the entire of the 'bar' translucent, including geekamp, lsxcommand, etc. How do I do this?
is it even possible?

edit: this is within the theme I'm working on, I dont want a program to do it separatly.

for geekamp controls, you can use layercut for your shortcuts and set the alpha to the desired amount:

*Shortcut "" X Y image.png image_hover.png image_click.png #0 a:150 !Bang

for most other modules like lsxcommand, you need to use grdtransparent. the trick with grdtransparent is that it can't apply transparency to modules with periods in the name, so you'll have to load any module you want to be transparent the old way:

LoadModule $ConfigDir$lsxcommand.dll

just make sure the module is, in fact, located in the ConfigDir (or wherever you put it).

so basically, if i do this, i break OTS2?

It's just a "bug" in grdtransparent's documentation. It strips everything after the last dot, assuming it was the file extension. So just add ".dll" and it should work as before, e.g. popup2-2.1.6.dll.

so in my theme.rc i should:
use netloadmodule to load grdtransparent normally
use netloadmodule to load the rest of the modules normally
use grdtransparent on the actual dll files as you suggested

and thats it?

no, wait, is it:
use netloadmodule to load grdtransparent normally
use netloadmodule to load the rest of the modules with .dll appended
use grdtransparent on the actual dll files as you suggested

HELP!

and is "*netloadmodlue [exact name of zip file on module server]" correct?

Yup... exact name on server minus the .zip extension. Note that most servers are case sensitive. Not much NLM can do about that. :p

and the other question?

Use NLM to load all modules, including grdtransparent. Then "use grdtransparent on the actual DLL file". :)

i think you could hook everything to an lsbox and then set its alpha

right. got it.

can i set all the parts of the theme to allways on top? Its set for some, but not all, making it look sh*t.