Making a frame Transparent

I'm trying to make a small program that displays some text in a frame, but the frame should be transparent so the user can see the text, and whats behind the frame on the desktop. I've looked for a way to set the color of the current frame, or just the Alpha but no luck. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Well, it was impossible under 1.3. AFAIK, they've done nothing within Merlin to change this.
The best you'll be able to come up with is a component that picks up whatever is sitting underneath it within the component heirarchy and respects what its parent is trying to paint. Of course, once you hit the top component in the heirarchy (i.e. the frame), you're pretty much stuffed. ;-)
Hope that helps!
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I want to make a Frame transparent,it is possible?I find all the API but no result : (
More, I want to increate my Frame's Height ,but it can't work. code is:
Frame f=new Frame("Test");
for(int i=0;i<6;i++){
f.setSize(40,i * 10);
}If I change to code to
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f.setSize(40,30);
...................It can work well.But why ? It is so complicated . : (
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