Showing Images

[Jonathan Wood]

I want to show the small help image that comes with VS. It is a question
mark in a blue circle. It seems several versions are included.

There is a PNG file, which has transparancies. But IE appears to ignore the
trasparancy and instead draw a grey background.

There are several versions with a mask color, which I don't believe IE
supports.

I can of course modify the image. But making the background white does not
produce the desired effect if the Web page background was ever another
color.

What is the best way to hide the invisible areas of an image?

Thanks.

Jonathan

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

Import the image into a graphic editing program that suppors GIF and set the
background color to be the transparency color. you can do this in PNG, as
well, but GIF is supported by even older browsers.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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"Jonathan Wood" <jw***@softcircuits.comwrote in message
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>I want to show the small help image that comes with VS. It is a question
mark in a blue circle. It seems several versions are included.

There is a PNG file, which has transparancies. But IE appears to ignore
the trasparancy and instead draw a grey background.

There are several versions with a mask color, which I don't believe IE
supports.

I can of course modify the image. But making the background white does not
produce the desired effect if the Web page background was ever another
color.

What is the best way to hide the invisible areas of an image?

Thanks.

Jonathan

[Jonathan Wood]

Yeah, I guess I knew about GIF files. One problem with them is that, since
they don't have an alpha channel, aliasing can look bad against some
background colors.

But I guess PNG just isn't widely accepted at this point.

I was able to make GIF files that were acceptable.

Thanks.

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Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
http://www.softcircuits.com

"Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer)" <No************@comcast.netNoSpamMwrote in
message news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

Import the image into a graphic editing program that suppors GIF and set
the background color to be the transparency color. you can do this in PNG,
as well, but GIF is supported by even older browsers.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

*************************************************
Think outside of the box!
*************************************************
"Jonathan Wood" <jw***@softcircuits.comwrote in message
news:ew**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>>I want to show the small help image that comes with VS. It is a question
mark in a blue circle. It seems several versions are included.

There is a PNG file, which has transparancies. But IE appears to ignore
the trasparancy and instead draw a grey background.

There are several versions with a mask color, which I don't believe IE
supports.

I can of course modify the image. But making the background white does
not produce the desired effect if the Web page background was ever
another color.

What is the best way to hide the invisible areas of an image?

Thanks.

Jonathan