I have not idea if it exists some specific mailing list for gtk and win.

I’ll hope to found someone interested to fix the problems.
Anyway I think that the right way to work is:
- fix the GtkWindow initialization and
- implement the gdk_window_input_shape_combine_mask
- implement the gdk_cursor_new_from_pixmap that you have workarounded.

I don’t think that a patch approach can allow to a serious development
and then I think that the right way to follow is publish bug reports
to the gtk team

The gtk fix for win32 it is out of my planes.
I am a free software supporter and I have tried to build Ardesia
for windows only to see my program run on it and to demonstrate the porting feasibility.

This task for me is closed even if I don’t know how fix some things.

I have other priority in the development.

I’m pretty sure that have Ardesia running with the mainstream Ubuntu distro it is more useful for my purposes.

I have seen that the windows user often prefer shareware software and I can not think that it is easy to make visible a tool that it run under Windows.

There are for win some tools similar to Ardesia;
I know them (e.g. Easy Whiteboard, pointtofix…) and
I have tried to do better and I think to have reached the goal.

We’ll see, it is possible that the win32 porting will be postponed

An other very interesting porting is in the MacOsX direction, for this operating system there are not similar tools and there are a lot of designers that love this platform.

Bye

At the moment in windows I am using a semitransparent window to avoid the problem
but in the linux version I’m able to have a complete transparent window
and color different RGBA color

See the screenshot on http://code.google.com/p/ardesia/

The other problem is that in the window32 gtk implementation the gdk_window_input_shape_combine_mask does not work properly.

In linux I use this call a lot, when I want paint on the top of the transparent window I apply a NULL shape to grab the mouse events

When you select the ungrab button I apply a transparent shape to pass the events below the transparent window

I have seen the documentation of the gdk_window_input_shape_combine_mask function
ant it says that in the window implementation in win32 does nothing
http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/gdk/gdk-Windows.html#gdk-window-input-shape-combine-mask

but reading the code I have seen that call the gdk_window_shape_combine_mask
that make a very different think.
http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/gdk/gdk-Windows.html#gdk-window-shape-combine-mask

Anyway for the moment I have stopped to try to fix these two problem on win32
because I am alone and I have a lot of work to do to maintain Ardesia
and I have not a lot of skill in the windows environment

I think that Ardesia will be a free good program to be used to make presentation
or to be used with touch screen, tablet and…

Cheers bye

I have a couples of problem about trasparency but I hope
that can solve as soon as possible

Do you still have your Windows Journal files? I used a virtual printer to turn them into PDFs, which could then be further annotated in Xournal. Not perfect, but at least not a total loss.

However, you can already do PDF annotation in Windows Journal, sort of. Windows Journal comes with a virtual printer that allows you to turn a PDF into a Windows Journal file.