Thanks again.

I´ll get some icon editors.

Oscar

>Hello
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>There's absolutely no way to get the transparency with 'Draq Opaque'... <s>. No connection between those two concepts. The 'Draw Opaque' is used in Paint for other purposes.
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>You think now you've obtained some transparents bitmaps used in those command buttons, but you'be been fooled by the normal behaviour of VFP: the white part of a bitmap is not drawn on a button.
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>There is no need to use a third party tool. Paint will do the job for you if you use bitmaps. You only need to save the bitmap, as you usually do, and then save it again with .MSK extension. You'll have two identical bitmaps, one .BMP and one .MSK. The MSK should have only two colors: black and white. The white part in .MSK will represent the transparency in .BMP, and the black part in .MSK will represent the opaque part of .BMP.
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>If you want to create .ICO files, you need to use a Icon editor. There are a lot of shareware on the net, you can use the Imagedit (distributed with VFP 5) or the Visual C++'s graphic designer, if you have it.
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>Hope this helps
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>>Hi Grigore
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Could you recommend me any utility to get the transparency?
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>>Can this be done with the regular utilities included whit W’2000 and VFP
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>>Oscar