Having trouble with quick menu transparencies & creating a seamless textbox + quick menu combo

[sasquatchii]

Hi, I made a mockup design for my textbox + quick menu which I'd like to look like this:



Here's what it currently looks like in game:



As you can see, it's a bit different because it's not as seamless where the textbox meets the quick menu. The weird thing is, is the .png file\ for the quick menu idle image map that I used is transparent, but in-game it shows up as completely opaque. I'm wondering if there is a way to tweak this, maybe by allowing the quick menu to be transparent in-game - or possibly making both menus completely opaque in game and then tweaking their code so they are slightly transparent?

Not sure if it matters - but here is my code for the quick menu. I tried adding "Alpha True" to make the menu transparent but no such luck

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screen quick_menu():

    imagemap:

            ground "gui/quick-menu-inactive.png" 
            hover "gui/quick-menu-active.png"
            selected_idle "gui/quick-menu-active.png"
            
            alpha True

            hotspot (551, 720, 148, 70) action Rollback()
            hotspot (711, 720, 177, 70) action ShowMenu('history')
            hotspot (899, 720, 146, 70) action Skip()
            hotspot (1057, 720, 150, 70) action Preference("auto-forward", "toggle")
            hotspot (1217, 720, 160, 70) action ShowMenu('load')
            hotspot (1388, 720, 160, 70) action ShowMenu('save')
            hotspot (1558, 720, 174, 70) action ShowMenu('preferences')
            

    

## This code ensures that the quick_menu screen is displayed in-game, whenever
## the player has not explicitly hidden the interface.
init python:
    config.overlay_screens.append("quick_menu")

default quick_menu = True

style quick_button is default
style quick_button_text is button_text

style quick_button:
    properties gui.button_properties("quick_button")

style quick_button_text:

[XxrenxX]

I've used a bit of alpha in my own, but not for what you are trying. I use it for transition effects for transparent menu's and screens. Maybe try this, you may need to change your main file so it's not transparent, or tweak both if this code does work. Sorry if it doesn't!

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init -5:
    style quick_button:
        is default
        alpha 0.9