Adding transparency to a widget

[sylumer]

Try the example in this thread. You will need to use the appropriate portion of your background image that corresponds with the section of the home screen where the widget is displayed.

Semi-transparant background for widget

Hi, I wrote (more like cherry-picked from dozens of other examples) a small script to retrieve a daily comic from GoComics (e.g. Get Fuzzy or Garfield) and display it in a widget. It works, and while I’m sure there are a ton of things I could improve in my code (I’m not used to writing JS), the main thing bothering me is that the background of the widget is white. If possible, I’d prefer a semi-transparent, kind of “frosted” look like e.g. the iOS’s battery widget. I’ve been trying to pass a …