You cannot click it anymore: mouse clicks will 'fall through' to underlying windows. In essence, this makes the window disappear as far as the mouse is concerned. New in version 1.0.5 is the ability to make transparenticized windows 'Click-through'. Check the Preview check box to see the effect of the transparency setting. Here's where you configure the hotkey and the level of transparency to use. When you run See Through Windows, all you get is an icon in the System Tray that looks like blueish sunglasses: Of course, making the transparency level and the hotkey configurable, creating an icon for the application, and adding an installer took me the rest of the day, but here it is: See Through Windows. It took me all of two hours to get a basic functioning task bar app that makes the foreground window transparent when you press a hotkey, and turns it back to opaque when you press the hotkey again. Why can't I have that in Windows as well? And how hard can it be to write a little task bar application to make that work? The answer is: not very - primarily thanks to the. This will make the popup transparent until you release the Control key - simply brilliant, and brilliantly simple.
To see what's hidden underneath the popup window, press the Control key. NET 2008: when an Intellisense popup is visible, it usually obscures some part of your code.
Recently, I discovered a neat feature in Visual Studio.
