Re: toolbar image quality... :(

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From: mohit
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:31

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thanks horst, got a dojy way to  fix it but after each 		Application.EnableVisualStyles();
do 
	Application.DoEvents();

And it works fine.... lol
Thanks again



"Horst Reichert" <horst.reichert@rt-science.de> wrote:
>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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