Scrolling text overlay

[Mike Rooney]

Hi everyone,

I am wondering if I can use wxPython to display a scrolling text 
"banner" across a certain part of the screen. I don't think coding the 
scrolling would be the problem; my main issue is getting text with a 
transparent background "overlayed" on top of the users screen. I see 
that you can do transparent/shaped splash windows so I was wondering if 
I can use this somehow.

Another alternative I suppose could be using PIL to generate images of 
the text with transparent backgrounds but that seems like it could be slow.

Has anyone done anything similar to this and could lead me to an 
example, or suggestions? This will only be used on MSW, by the way.

Thanks for your time,
Mike Rooney