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... 3 image rendering methods in printer class: 1) SayBitmp(...) 2) SayImage(...) 3) PrintImage() SayBitmap() works even now, though it can not handle transparencies and alpha images. Quality is much less in case of non-bmp images like jpg, png, etc. Pngs look very ackward though. SayImage() also works ...

... DEFINE BRUSH oBrush FILENAME "..\bitmaps\backgrnd\paper2.bmp" DEFINE WINDOW oWnd TITLE "FWH 8.05 Transparencies" ; COLOR 0, "N/W" BRUSH oBrush ACTIVATE WINDOW oWnd ; ON PAINT ABPaint( hDC, 10, 10, oBmp:hBitmap, 220 ) // 0-255 transparency ...

Guys, my doubt is quite impossible, but come to my dream.
 
Would you like to upload a png (obeying the transparencies image) on top of a bmp. (it's easy)
 
Difficult for me would be to do this in a progress, meter, or meterex know what else it.
 
Accepted @ x, y and 'REDEFINES'

Antonio, I liked more minimalist, more "green", why spend processor or graphics card (energy, heating, calculations), with shadows, transparencies? Microsoft this targeting the environment of tablets and smartphones, where economy power is essential. is something more clear, direct, ...

... := .f.  which I had to place at the beginning of my program 3) There is a new FWH function called SetDlgGradient() which simplifies the use of transparencies with Dialogs as well as the text placed within those Dialoges. The SetDlgGradient() function sets a global gradient that is inherited ...

Uwe

If you remember recently, I was trying to work with the ToolBar class but I was working with Alpha Chanel bitmaps .. Was that the reason I could not get the transparencies of the icons to work properly .. they needed to be non-alpha chanel ?

Thanks
Rick

... brush and make the background look like a regular windows message ... Rick Lipkin ps .. Antonio.. with all the changes you have made with transparencies .. it would be nice to update and re-work Alert() DO CASECASE lHScroll .and. lVScroll      @ 25, 70 GET oGet VAR cSay ...

... and other controls themselves, all controls created a "window". The standard Windows OS feature, to create a window, only supports transparencies with brush, FiveWin added design mode for a more comprehensive management controls, but can not escape from the Windows OS features. ...

... 3.- If you want move the bitmap around the window until the brush will be useless and will need paint the bitmap "with the hand" with transparencies techniques (seek in google about that) maybe bitblt function (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183370(VS.85).aspx) can help ...

... 3.- If you want move the bitmap around the window until the brush will be useless and will need paint the bitmap "with the hand" with transparencies techniques (seek in google about that) maybe bitblt function (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183370(VS.85).aspx) can help ...

Jonathan, The problem with Windows 7 is that due the transparencies it uses, text with highlighted border and blur effects, we can not paint the title text the way they do it and if we copy that area and move it to the right side, the transparency, ...

... on the title bar using Method NcPaint(), but we prefer not to paint there. Better leave Windows to use that area itself, or we could break the transparencies, etc. used in Windows 7. Maybe apply your brilliance and reconsider the second problem. As we can now do alpha channel, transparent is ...

... on the title bar using Method NcPaint(), but we prefer not to paint there. Better leave Windows to use that area itself, or we could break the transparencies, etc. used in Windows 7.

Toninho,

Thanks!

Hi, This is the way to draw PNG images using FWH and freeimage: hBmp = PngToBitmap( hDC, "c:\myfile.png" ) ABPaint( hDC, 10, 10, hBmp ) ---cut--- HB_FUNC( PNGTOBITMAP ) { HDC hDC = ( HDC ) hb_parnl( 1 ); FIBITMAP *dib; FREE_IMAGE_FORMAT fiSource; fiSource = FreeImage_GetFileType( ( LPSTR )...