Hi Bernard,

thanks for that info. I will give Cesars code a try as soon I get the time for some serious testing.
The batch functionality of his PRG is exactly what I need to convert my bmps and remove the msks.

>>Hi Borislav,
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>>autotransparency is working, just as you said it would.
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>>However, there will still be lots of msk files in my apps because otherwise I would have to change all bitmaps to lightgrey where the transperency is not wanted. Have a look at the attached bmp and you'll see what I mean.. :-)
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>Not really. The transparent colour in VFP is White RGB(255,255,255) and then only when you set the BackStyle = Transparent property
>of the image control.
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>The way to do it is to paint your images with non white on areas you DO NOT WANT TRANSPARENT BUT WANT TO RETAIN WHITE - RGB(254,254,254) will do and you will not be able to tell the difference between this and pure white RGB(255,255,255).
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>You can either paint each image individually using a Paint program or go to
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>http://weblogs.foxite.com/vfpimaging/archive/2008/12/15/7441.aspx
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>where Cesar has code that will do your images in a batch, quickly. All you need is his code and the GDI+X classes on VFPX.
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>There is no need for masks anymore.