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Dear Mr.Rick,

Rick Lipkin wrote:I have no clue why the toolbar class is not showing up with transparent icons like yours
Thanks
Rick

What about the resource compiler used by you ? Does it support Alpha channel ?

Regards
Anser

Rick,

You can use these BMP-styles as well :



Best regards
Uwe

Anser

I am creating and using successfully 24 bit alpha blend icons derived from .png with Gimp photo editor then adding the the .bmp using Resedit to insert them into .rc

All I am doing at this point is adding the .rc that contains my icons into my project to be compiled with the standard Borland 582. I tested the Toolbar class with those very same alpha blend icons that work in the buttonbar class.

I do not know why the toolbar class will not show transparent icons

Rick Lipkin

Rick,

with some more Tests, I found what's wrong : TRANSPARENT BMP
I repainted a original 24 Bit transparent BMP.



oImageList = TImageList():New( 32, 32 ) // width and height of bitmaps

From Resource
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oImageList:AddMasked( TBitmap():Define( "New", , oWnd ), nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) )
oImageList:AddMasked( TBitmap():Define( "Open", , oWnd ), nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) )
oImageList:AddMasked( TBitmap():Define( "Check", , oWnd ), nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) )
oImageList:AddMasked( TBitmap():Define( "Search", , oWnd ), nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) )
oImageList:AddMasked( TBitmap():Define( "Print", , oWnd ), nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) )
oImageList:AddMasked( TBitmap():Define( "Internet", ,oWnd ), nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) )
oImageList:AddMasked( TBitmap():Define( "Keys", , oWnd ), nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) )

From Code 24 Bit transparent ( Alphablended ) Doesn't work because of nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) !!!
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oImageList:AddMasked( TBitmap():Define( ,c_path + "\Images\Select.bmp", oWnd ), nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) )

From Code 24 Bit with purple Background ( repainted No transparent ) Works !!!
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oImageList:AddMasked( TBitmap():Define( ,c_path + "\Images\Select1.bmp", oWnd ), nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) )

oImageList:AddMasked( TBitmap():Define( ,c_path + "\Images\Quit.bmp", oWnd ), nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) )

changed :
oImageList:AddMasked( TBitmap():Define( ,c_path + "\Images\Select.bmp", oWnd ), nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) )
against :
oImageList:AddMasked( TImage():Define( ,c_path + "\Images\Select.bmp", oWnd ) )



Best Regards
Uwe

Uwe

Interesting discovery .. just curious why the default icons used in the original sample would not work .. they were taken from the Fwh\Bitmaps folder and were purple background ?

Rick

Rick,

The used BMP's from Sub-folder 32 x 32 :


nRGB( 255, 0, 255 ) defines a Image-background.
That is the Reason, a Alphachannel is ignored.

using :
oImageList:Add( TImage():Define( ,c_path + "\Images\Select.bmp", oWnd ) )
Alphablended BMP's are painted, but the Border is not 100 %.

Best Regards
Uwe