I would like to make a blur on the background of the JFrame, which is transparent to show what is happening under it, but I have no idea how I can blur the background and avoid flickering. What I want to achieve is to have a transparent background, which is less blurry, but still shows a "live view" under the windows below it, and not have a blurry static image that does not change. Keep in mind that a window can be the size of a full screen.
Hopefully I described it correctly as I am still new to Java Graphics.
Transparent frame in code:
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class BlurredBackgroundWindow {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new BlurredBackgroundWindow().drawGUI();
}
public void drawGUI() {
myJFrame frm = new myJFrame();
frm.setTitle("BlurredBackgroundWindow");
frm.setSize(480, 360);
frm.setUndecorated(true);
frm.setBackground(new Color(0,0,0,1));
frm.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frm.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frm.setVisible(true);
}
class myJFrame extends JFrame {
public void paint(Graphics g) {
super.paint(g);
}
}
}
Note. The frame is completely transparent and, to see any effect, change the color, for example.
frm.setBackground(new Color(0,100,0,100));
Thanks for any help
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import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImageOp;
import java.awt.image.ConvolveOp;
import java.awt.image.Kernel;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class BlurredBackgroundWindow {
public static int FPS = 2;
private BufferedImage temp = null;
private BufferedImage out = null;
private BufferedImage image = null;
myJFrame frm = new myJFrame();
public static void main(String[] args) {
new BlurredBackgroundWindow().drawGUI();
}
public void drawGUI() {
frm.setTitle("BlurredBackgroundWindow");
frm.setExtendedState(JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
frm.setUndecorated(true);
frm.setBackground(new Color(0,0,0,1));
frm.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frm.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frm.setVisible(true);
Timer bcg = new Timer();
bcg.schedule(new TimerTask() {
Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
Rectangle screenRectangle = new Rectangle(screenSize);
Robot robot;
public void run() {
System.out.println("Repaint");
frm.repaint();
try {
robot = new Robot();
image = robot.createScreenCapture(screenRectangle);
} catch (AWTException e) {}
frm.repaint();
}
}, 0, (int) (1000f/FPS));
}
class myJFrame extends JFrame {
public void paint(Graphics g) {
super.paint(g);
if(image != null) {
float[] matrix = {
0.111f, 0.111f, 0.111f,
0.111f, 0.111f, 0.111f,
0.111f, 0.111f, 0.111f,
};
BufferedImageOp op = new ConvolveOp( new Kernel(3, 3, matrix) );
temp = op.filter(image, out);
out = temp;
g.drawImage(out,0,0,null);
temp=null;out=null;image=null;
}
}
}
}