>Hi, I'm finishing doing an upgrade to an application I developed near a decade. So they asked me to change the icon set (.bmp files) for all my buttons and menus so the users recognize the changes visually also. I was searching on the Internet for icon sets but I find them mostly in .png format, I tried some of them but when I use them in my application, the transparent regions of the pictures turn into black or white in some cases, so I would have to edit them and save them in .bmp format and adding a .msk file for white regions. I have a lot of icons (.bmp) but I don't want to waste my time editing the .png icons. Is there a way to use .png pictures in my application without having to edit and changing all of them into .bmp files?
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>TIA
Take a look at this blog post I wrote some time ago:
https://www.west-wind.com/wconnect/weblog/ShowEntry.blog?id=883You can preload PNG images to get transparency to work. I use re-usable routine I put in the load event of each image that requires transparency to handle this.
There are a few odd refresh cases where the transparency still gets lost (like unloading VFP resources) but it's very rare.
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