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marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Hi,

There something I cant seem to figure out, (probably because not enough sleep Wink

).

Im trying to add a bitmap element with the invisible style but it doesnt seem to work:

DIALOG ADD,BITMAP,TEST,100,100,30,30,@path(%0)test.bmp,Hello,click,INVISIBLE

When I do the the white region of my TEST.BMP that is suppose to be the invisble part doesnt work... What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks...
Smile

LiquidCode · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 3:56 pm Post subject:

Hey Martin,

That's interesting. Is the Upper Left pixel white as well? That is what
color is invisible throughout the image. (I'm not saying you didn't
know that, just making sure you remember. Wink

).

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Yup, the bitmap has a round red circle in the middle, and the exterior is white.

I tried changing the exterior color to other colors to make sure...

Im suppose to see only the red circle not the white square background.

LiquidCode · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 4:13 pm Post subject:

Can you post a copy of the bitmap?

Rebel49 · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 4:25 pm Post subject:

If memory serves me, and it often does not, I ran into that same problem when I was first trying out and exploring VDS. I attributed to my lack of familiarity with the code and left it as that. Think I then went to plan "B" with whatever I was trying to do at the time. Exclamation

Anyway I would be interested in any clarity to this.

REB

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 6:34 pm Post subject:

If you don't create your Dialog with the INVISIBLE Style your bitmap won't be transparent.
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me but I don't see another way around it.

LiquidCode · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 7:56 pm Post subject:

Yeah, that seems the case. I hope that it works right in the next version.

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Here's a the rought code of what I'm trying to do and the link for the BMP is
http://www.extremesenses.com/vdsworld/seektest.bmp

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:18 pm Post subject:

Adding INVISIBLE doesn't make it look very well, but it's the only way the bitmap will be Transparent. I guess SADE figured transparent bitmaps were only good for skinning the whole app.

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

So in a way thats a bug right?

In the help it says:

LiquidCode · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:22 pm Post subject:

The only thing that I can think to do would be to use an icon. You
can then make the background of the icon invisible.
That may or may not work for what you want to do.

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Thanks Chris, that's what I will probably do then ...

Now to convert my bitmaps to ICO.... Confused

This may sound as a strange question, but how do I convert Anim GIFS to ANIM ICO?

Thanks guys...

LiquidCode · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:29 pm Post subject:

I think Microangelo can do that, but, I'm not sure. You can DL
the trial and try it. --> http://www.impactsoft.com

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

I just download that, and converted my BMP to ICO, and it still doesnt work. Strange.

LiquidCode · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 8:38 pm Post subject:

I converted the Seektest.bmp to an icon and made the background
transparent and it worked fine for me.