There’s something basic I probably don’t understand fully:
What causes a component with an opacity lower than 1 to reflect its neighboring components when I hover over it with the mouse?
I have a TextEditor with opacity of 0.4f contained in a custom component with setOpaque(true) and a paint() method with a fillAll(solid colour).
Hmm… Interesting. I had a quick look through the component class and found a little bug - not sure if it’s the same thing you’re getting, but try this tweak in juce_Component.cpp: