>I've got a couple of bitmaps that were created in Corel. They look nice there, but when put on a form in VFP 5.0, they do not have the same appearance. VFP seems to create solid layers of colors which is not the desired effect. Do I need to have a 3rd party graphics lib to display fine bitmaps on a VFP form?
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>I think the correct term might be something like gradient shading. As dark blue turns lighter and lighter until it is white. The bitmap shows with solid bands of color rather than slight changes in color across the bitmap.
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>Thanks,
>Steve Despres
Look at the SET PALETTE command. By deafult VFp uses a generic color palette for all graphics. This causes problems with gradient shading. You can use the SET PALETTE command to specify that VFP use the picture's custom palette. You can only have 2 different palettes, though, 1 custom one and the default VFP palette.