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- Newsgroups: alt.toolkits.xview
- Path: sparky!uunet!island!coney!hue
- From: hue@island.COM (Pond Scum)
- Subject: Re: Colour Server Images
- Message-ID: <hue.727910242@coney>
- Sender: usenet@island.COM (The Usenet mail target)
- Organization: Island Graphics Corp.
- References: <C17nGK.1zn@micromuse.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:17:22 GMT
- Lines: 13
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- adam@micromuse.co.uk (Adam Kerrison) writes:
- >After several attempts, I now have colour images on my buttons in Xview
- >(I'm using Xpm if anyone wants to know how to do it). I do still have a
- >problem, however - How can I make areas of the image transparent so that
- >they take on the window background colour ???
-
- If I understand what you're trying to do, you don't. When I create
- server images, I always provide my own pixmap, rather than just supply
- the image bits. Then you can do paint the panel background color
- anywhere in your image, giving the illusion of transparency.
-
-
- -Jonathan hue@island.COM
-