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... buttons no longer display properly. I have narrowed it down to the images that are 256 color BMP. I converted the images to True Color with Alpha channel and they work ok. 16 color and True color seems to be working ok. Here is one of the original 256 bitmaps: http://www.wwrowland.com/images/closesave.bmp ...

Rick, If you use 32 bit bitmaps they will not compile into your .exe via .rc .. at least not with Borland. The only way I get alpha channel bitmaps to burn into my .exe is to save as 24 bit in my .rc or reference the 32 bit bitmap as a ( external ) file. Can you send me a 32 bit bitmap to ...

Pelles C can do it.

I save bmp alpha channel with Pixelformer.
png to bmp alpha channel. and include it in .res with Pelles C.
My be could help you.

Sorry for my English.

Best regards.
Saludos.
Ruben Dario Fernandez.

Uwe

If you use 32 bit bitmaps they will not compile into your .exe via .rc .. at least not with Borland. The only way I get alpha channel bitmaps to burn into my .exe is to save as 24 bit in my .rc or reference the 32 bit bitmap as a ( external ) file.

Rick Lipkin

... 1,  "created": "2014-12-09T22:13:09Z",  "lang": "it-IT",  "results": {   "channel": {    "title": "Yahoo! Weather - Nome, AK",    "link": "http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/weather/Nome__AK/*http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USAK0170_f.html",  ...

Francisco Pixelformer is a good program .. I also use Gimp ( free open source ) which is as powerful as PhotoShop. I create all my alpha channel bitmaps with Gimp .. Just Open your Picture with Gimp and Open ( layers ) and you can drop any picture you want on your original, resize, crop, etc ...

Hi Francisco If you do not have many images and does not need high quality (alpha channel), you can use the "transparent selection" feature in MS Paint (yes, the good old MS Paint). 1 - Load the image into MS Paint 2 - Create an empty area on the side ...

Hi Francisco If you do not have many images and does not need high quality (alpha channel), you can use the "transparent selection" feature in MS Paint (yes, the good old MS Paint). 1 - Load the image into MS Paint 2 - Create an empty area on the side of ...

... is free, not even Google. Focus on Microsoft products and services, not what someone else does better I don't know how long my communication channel will exist, but I'd like to take advantage of the opportunity while I can. It might even help. Thanks.

Uwe,

Excellent!

You are a real master using images, thanks!

... BMP using sample TESTIMG.prg http://www.pflegeplus.com/IMAGES/Alpha3.jpg The result of the saved BMP with a still existing alpha-channel before, there was a black background http://www.pflegeplus.com/IMAGES/Alpha4.jpg Alphablended works ONLY with 32 bpp !!! We ...

Hello Uwe, I am also in this "film" (few days) and I try to load transparent patern "input.png" on dialog, put some text on it and save to "output.png". I found this modified tImage example which save PNG corectly, but when I try to put some text on bitmap and save, not...

... DLL_CALLCONV FreeImage_SetTransparent(FIBITMAP *dib, BOOL enabled); Tells FreeImage if it should make use of the transparency table or the alpha channel that may accompany a bitmap . When calling this function with a bitmap whose bitdepth is different from 1-, 4-, 8- or 32-bit, transparency is ...

Uwe,

I think that FWH function DibFromBitmap() may not be properly saving the alpha channel.

You can review its source code here:
source\winapi\dibbmp.c

I guess we will have to google about it, or maybe FreeImage has a function that may help us...

Hello, saving a bitmap and testing the possible combinations, using : oDrawImg:SaveImage( cFilename, nExport ) the alphachannel will be lost. Is there another solution , saving a painted image ( BMP or PNG ) with a included alphachannel ? I think something from FREEIMAGE.dll is missing ...