title: Translucent panel over AWT component
body: <p>I have an AWT component (3rd party library), and I need to mask it by showing a translucent panel over it (alpha of 128 in this case). Is there any way at all to do this? I looked at the "TransparentPanel" class that uses Sun's AWTUtilities class, but that has a limitation of not being able to show pixels with 0 &lt; alpha &lt; 255. Even if it's not a pretty solution, I'm just looking for some way to do this.</p>