Generally, before you look or ask for help, you will whine and complain about it verbally to anyone that is near you or to yourself. I did a bit of that before proceeding to examine the source code itself directly to try and discover the cause for my problem. I did not from the get go because eRCP does not bundle source plug-ins with their SDK downloads. Thus, I actually had to check this code out from CVS.

And behold, look what I’ve found!

public void setAlpha(int alpha) {
        // do nothing, not supported for win or ppc
}

No wonder my GC doesn’t support transparency, code like this just might do it. It would’ve been nice if there was something in the javadocs, though, since SWT is advertised as being a “cross-platform widget toolkit”.

Next to shampoo-and-conditioner 2-in-1, the JDT classpath container is arguably the best invention of the last 100 years.
-Wassim Melhem, PDE Lead

Fact or fiction? Let’s hope bug 182537 gets resolved soon as someone popped into #eclipse today inquiring about bug 109137 today. Given Wassim’s comment, would it be possible for this to make it into 3.3 before the end of June? If the JDT team wants to beat companies like Pert Plus (my personal shampoo of choice) and Head & Shoulders and show that they are the number one invention of the last century, they better get on it.