Transparent images in ToolBar?

[Anders Johansson]

Hi!

I´m using the ToolBar and every ToolBarButton has an image connected from a
ImageList.
Every image has a transparent color.

It seems like CF doesn´t support transparency or does anyone know how to set
transparency?

Thanks

Anders

 

[Peter B]

This issue has been covered several times, and I am sure you can find a
solution in old threads.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...soft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework

The short answer is that transparent icons indeed are supported but there
are a few things one can do wrong, which causes the transparency to
"vanish".

regards,

Peter

 

[Anders Johansson]

Hi Peter!

I found this from your link.
http://www.opennetcf.org/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=419&SearchTerms=icon,transparency
I think I'll give that a try!

Thanks

 

[Joe Keller]

Something else that may help as well - I've tried a lot of icon editors and
found that "Axialis Icon Workshop 5.0" is the easiest to use with regards to
creating transparent icons that show up properly in a CF toolbar. In order
to have the icon show up properly in the toolbar (both when enabled and
disabled) I use a 16x16 icon with a 256 color palette.

Email me directly if you need a sample icon that *WILL* show up properly
(w/transparency
intact, etc.) in the toolbar. You can use this icon as your benchmark - if
you get
this to show up properly then others will as well

Good luck - let us know if you need anything else.

Joe

 

[Anders Johansson]

Hi Joe!

After making my images to transparent icons using Axialis Icon Workshop
(nice pgm) and included
the files in my project as embedded resources, it actually worked!

Thanks

Anders