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Lesson: Using Other Swing Features
How to Create Translucent and Shaped Windows
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How to Create Translucent and Shaped Windows

As of the Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) Update 10 release, you can add translucent and shaped windows to your Swing applications. This page covers the following topics:

Supported Capabilities

This functionality, which is part of the public AWT package in the JDK 7 release, takes three forms, as follows:


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