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   zennehoy
   Member

   When I run a PN version I compiled myself, the icons in the menu and toolbar have a black rather than transparent background. Any ideas what may be causing this? Thanks,
   Zen

   Posted 5 years ago #
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   simon
   PN Developer

   What version of windows are you using? The current svn source has icons that only look right on Win XP - I need to enable a different set of icons for pre-XP machines.

   Posted 5 years ago #
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   zennehoy
   Member

   WinXP SP 2, so that shouldn't be a problem. I get some crashes as well in the self-compiled version that I don't get in your binary, for example when I attempt to add a tool. I'll have to Debug it more in depth to figure out exactly what's going on,
   Zen

   Posted 5 years ago #
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   simon
   PN Developer

   Ah ok, what version of the SDK, WTL and Visual Studio are you using?

   Posted 5 years ago #
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   zennehoy
   Member

   Lol, I really need more practice writing bug reports ;) No idea which of these numbers means anything to you, but here goes:

   MSVC++ 2005 Version 8.0.50727.42
   WTL Version 7.5 (build 5333)
   .NET Framework SDK Version 2.0
   Boost 1.33.1
   STL/SDK (not sure, whatever came with VC++)

   Hope that's enough, let me know if I forgot anything. Cheers!
   Zen

   Posted 5 years ago #
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   webmailusr-msn
   Member

   Hey zennehoy:
   I got same problem: Are you using VS2005? What I did is open the bmp toolbars in a image editor and delete the background. I understand windows takes the first pixel (left-top) as the transparent color.
   If you try to open those bmps in VS resource editor, you get an error (It wants to convert them to 16 colors only!).

   I used Paint.NET (also a very good freeware) and using the magic wand I selected the color that is arround the icons and deleted it. Then I recompiled the rc file.

   Try it and I am almost sure you will get your problem solved.
   Regads, Manuel S.

   Posted 5 years ago #
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   simon
   PN Developer

   These bitmaps are 32-bit with alpha channel - the background needs to be there for them to look correct. You are right in that VS cannot edit these bitmaps, see:

   http://untidy.net/blog/2006/05/18/alpha-toolbar/

   Posted 5 years ago #
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   simon
   PN Developer

   Could one of you experiencing black icons please sync your source and re-build - do you still get black icons? I think I've fixed it for pre-xp.

   Not sure what to do about those that get them in XP - bizarre. I have added an option (not in the GUI) to disable the high-color toolbars but it shouldn't be needed for XP.

   Posted 5 years ago #

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