How to use clear/no color?

[FancyFurret]

Hello! I would like to remove all background color from my app, how can I accomplish this? Ive tried using Colors.Base.Normal = Application.Driver.MakeAttribute(Color.White, Color.Black); but it doesn't look like there is any Color.None/Color.Clear/etc.

My terminal emulator has a nice blurred background that I still want to see when running my gui.cs app, I don't want it to be filled with black/blue/etc., it doesn't look very nice.

Thanks! :)

[tznind]

Hey, thanks for enquiring. What Terminal are you using? on which OS? I don't think this is something that is currently supported but it looks like it is possible at least with the ncurses driver (andmarti1424/sc-im#164 and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2403399/ncurses-transparent-console-background).

[FancyFurret]

I’m using hyper on macOS

[tznind]

So on my linux laptop with Terminology shell and an animated gif background I am able to get the effect you are looking for with:

_baseColorScheme.Normal = new Terminal.Gui.Attribute(-1);

But -1 is transparent Foreground AND Background. Presumably there is some magic number that will be transparent background with x foreground color but I don't think it is mapped.

Also I think this isn't going to work for the Windows driver either. There -1 seems to give me a whitish grey color.