>>>In VFP you can use BMPs with white background RGB(255,255,255). VFP will make them transparent.
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>>Yeah I know but my icon has white in the actual image content (in the main area) so that doesn't work that well.
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>You can make your white in the main area almost white - 255,255,254.

Yes, so after trying other stuff that's what I ended up doing.

Such a PITA though. I'd been pestering the VFP team (when there was one) for years to get this fixed and work with transparent images, but they never did unfortunately.

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