Making systray icon color transparent!

[Lee]

Hi,

I have a notify icon and have been trying to make the background color
transparent. But do .ico files allow a transparent color? when i select
the image for the notify icon it askes for type .ico. now i know i can set
a transparent background with png's ect, but can i use tranparent (colors)
with an ico?

thanks

[Mark R. Dawson]

Hi Lee,
google is your friend :-)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...ent+background

Mark
http://www.markdawson.org
"Lee" wrote:

Hi,

I have a notify icon and have been trying to make the background color
transparent. But do .ico files allow a transparent color? when i select
the image for the notify icon it askes for type .ico. now i know i can set
a transparent background with png's ect, but can i use tranparent (colors)
with an ico?

thanks

[Paul E Collins]

"Lee" <le*****@hotmail.com> wrote:

do .ico files allow a transparent color?

Yes. Any program that lets you edit icon files should include a
transparent colour (and another special colour used for inverting) in
its palette. The Visual Studio icon editor supports this, for example.

P.