Overlays are user interface elements that are displayed over other UI elements, typically for the purpose of presenting additional or enhanced information and detail.
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WPF: How to make an overlay control with transparent canvas and clickable child
I want to make a custom control which will be used as an overlay. The control should contain a couple of child controls which should be drawn and should be clickable as usual. But everything else in the control should be transparent and…

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How can I change 'no rows to show' text programmatically in ag-grid?
I have recently been tinkering with the Ag-grid . I want to change the 'no rows to show' text to 'data is loading...' , when I am fetching some data from the REST API . The data is being returned in the form of an array of JSON objects . However ,…

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How to scale overlay image in ffmpeg
How can I scale down the overlay image to scale=320:240 in ffmpeg?
Wherever I try to place the scale command, i don't get the results.
Here is the command I am using, but it is actually stretching the image:
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i image.jpg -b:v 1M…

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camera overlay view - just for preview?
I've noticed that in OS 3.1 you can add an overlay view to the image picker with
cameraOverlayView
However, I've also noticed that adding a view via this method also displays the view for the entire time the UIImagePicker is displayed, when I only…

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Plot Overlay MATLAB
How do you take one plot and place it in the corner (or anywhere for that matter) of another plot in MATLAB?
I have logarithmic data that has a large white space in the upper right-hand side of the plot. In the white space I would like to overlay…

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Why is my system overlay catching all touches (no interaction with underlying view is possible)
I have a service which starts a system overlay. When the overlay is visible, I want it to be touchable/detect touches, but I want to preserve the interaction with the screen behind it (with behind I mean the underlying activity, next to the overlay…

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How would I overlay a canvas over text?
Hey everyone! So the image above is what I'm trying to achieve with my code, however One or the other is always pushing the other either below it or above it, instead of just sitting above each other.
I've been reading about z-index and top:0; but…

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Add status icons over file icons in Explorer, like Dropbox or SVN in .NET
I'm writing a Windows service application in C# with FileSystemWatcher.
How can I add status icons to files and folders in Windows Explorer similar to how Dropbox or SVN do it?

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Material UI Card text overlay
I'm using the Material UI Card and CardMedia components in my app but can't figure out how to overlay text on top of the image. This is a simplified example of what I'm trying:
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Android: Overlay TextView on LockScreen
Im trying to overlay a TextView on top of the LockScreen (Similar to how Android Overlays the time).
Note: I dont want to by-pass the lockscreen, but just draw on top of it (without interfering with any of the touch events).
I've tried using the…

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Service with Overlay - catch back button press
How can i do that?
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I launch a transparent activity, that catches the back press, forwards it to my service and closes itself afterwards. But this activity will be visible in the current running activities and therefore it's not a…

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How to overlay images in javascript?
I need to solve the following problem.
I have two (or more) .PNG images of the same dimensions.
Each PNG image is created with transparent background color.
I need to display img1 and upon it img2, so in places where img2 has trancparent color, img1…

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How to create an overlay that blocks touch events to UI below it?
I used a layer of framelayout with a semi-translucent background to create an overlay.
But this overlay doesn't block touch events to interact with the views below it.
How should create an overlay that blocks all touch events?

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Overlay over an ImageView on Android
So I have a list of images that come from the web, I don't know which color are they and I want to place a text over the ImageView.
My idea is to place the ImageView, an image overlay with transparency gradient over that ImageView and the text above…

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Put a button on top of a google map
I would like to put a button on top of a Google Map next to the Map, Satelite and Hybrid buttons.
I was wondering if its possible and how would be the best way to do it?
So ideas I have are overlaying a image on top of the google map that is…

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