Re: toolbar image quality... :(

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From: Horst Reichert
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:15

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The major problem is that the standard toolbar button images do not support 
transparency (even with VS-Studio 2005). Thus fancy drop down shadows etc., 
that make normal application icons so nice looking, will display as ugly 
dark grey borders. Thus be sure that designing your bitmaps for tool buttons 
do produce them without XP-Transparency. When creating the image list, you 
should modify the ColorDepth to Dpth32Bit or Depth24Bit before adding the 
images.

I hope your design will improve with these hints.

I also hope that someday transparent XP-bitmaps will be displayed correctly 
with the standard toolbar buttons.



Regards Horst

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