Hi Grigore

Thanks for your reply. I should elaborate a little. There is an option into Paint under the “Image” option that says “Draw Opaque”, I’ve used this before to turn regular bitmaps transparent and successfully used the for VFP command buttons, etc.

I though that by doing this and then opening it with a shareware downloaded utility and saving it again as .ico, I would get a transparent background icon.

Could you recommend me any utility to get the transparency?

Can this be done with the regular utilities included whit W’2000 and VFP

Oscar


>Hello
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>I really don't think you've saved the bitmap with a transparent background, because the .BMP format don't support transparency. Also, Paint don't allow to save bitmaps with transparency.
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>Now, getting to your problem: i think you are confusing a little the 'icon' with the 'bitmap'. As far as I know, you cannot save a icon as a bitmap through Paint, because Paint don't allow opening icons.
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>Also, in the _screen.icon property you cannot store bitmaps.
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>Can you, please, tell us what you really did?
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>Anyway, if you use a ICO file with transparency, it will show correctly.
>If you use a BMP file (note: you cannot use it for _Screen.Icon property), you should save another bmp file (but with .MSK extension), identical with the original BMP file, but where you want transparency, the .MSK should be white. Where you want opacity, the .MSK is black.
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>Hope this helps.
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>>Hi all:
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>>I need to use an icon with transparent background. I saved the icon as a bitmap through Paint setting transparent background. However. When I assign the icon to the _screen.icon property, the bitmap appears into a white square.
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>>First I thought it was a VFP setting, but after trying some icons included with MSDN, I noticed that they did not show the white background.
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>>Could somebody give me a hint about how to make appear with transparent gound?
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>>Thanks in advance and regards.
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>>Oscar Corte