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ImageList: Is this a bug...?

....or am I missing something?

Setup:

- I've created an empty Winforms project, and added two buttons A and B.
- Button A's Image property is set to point to a imagefile calles
"users.png"
- Added an imagelist and added the SAME image to this list, setting the
properties (size etc.) exactly the same as for A's Image property.
- Set button B's ImageList property to the new imagelist created, and it's
imageindex to 0.

The picture now shows on both buttons, but while Button A's image looks
great, Button B's image looks awful, with a blue border around
it....remember: It is the exact same picture, size, etc....

I did another post earlier, but after trying to tweak every possible setting
myself, and after extensive help from Armin Zingler, we have still not found
a reason for this behaviour. This may possibly be a problem affecting a lot
of users, so if anyone has suggestions on why this occurs, please let me
know... And if this is not a bug, there should be someone out there that
knows how to fix this....I hope... :-)

I've provided a link to my testproject, the original .png image is in the
/bin folder.

http://langedal.com/testicons.zip

Getting increasingly frustrated.... ;-)

Roger

Nov 20 '05 #1
16 2272
I tried setting the Imagelist's Colordepth to 24-bits instead of 8bit, and
nothing. So maybe it's a bug... The same happens on the Toolbar.
By the way, that is a great image! How/where did you get them? created them
yourself?

Andre Nogueira

"Roger" <ro******@hotma il.com> wrote in message
news:uF******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...
...or am I missing something?

Setup:

- I've created an empty Winforms project, and added two buttons A and B.
- Button A's Image property is set to point to a imagefile calles
"users.png"
- Added an imagelist and added the SAME image to this list, setting the
properties (size etc.) exactly the same as for A's Image property.
- Set button B's ImageList property to the new imagelist created, and it's
imageindex to 0.

The picture now shows on both buttons, but while Button A's image looks
great, Button B's image looks awful, with a blue border around
it....remember: It is the exact same picture, size, etc....

I did another post earlier, but after trying to tweak every possible
setting
myself, and after extensive help from Armin Zingler, we have still not
found
a reason for this behaviour. This may possibly be a problem affecting a
lot
of users, so if anyone has suggestions on why this occurs, please let me
know... And if this is not a bug, there should be someone out there that
knows how to fix this....I hope... :-)

I've provided a link to my testproject, the original .png image is in the
/bin folder.

http://langedal.com/testicons.zip

Getting increasingly frustrated.... ;-)

Roger

Nov 20 '05 #2
* "Roger" <ro******@hotma il.com> scripsit:
...or am I missing something?

Setup:

- I've created an empty Winforms project, and added two buttons A and B.
- Button A's Image property is set to point to a imagefile calles
"users.png"
- Added an imagelist and added the SAME image to this list, setting the
properties (size etc.) exactly the same as for A's Image property.
- Set button B's ImageList property to the new imagelist created, and it's
imageindex to 0.

The picture now shows on both buttons, but while Button A's image looks
great, Button B's image looks awful, with a blue border around
it....remember: It is the exact same picture, size, etc....


That's an issue with the ImageList control. The imagelist will support
bitmaps only when used at design time. Nevertheless, I didn't get it
work with adding the images at runtime (the blue changes to black).

There were some other threads on this issue, maybe you will find
something useful there:

<http://www.google.com/groups?q=dotnet +imagelist+tran sparency+png>

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>
Nov 20 '05 #3
"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.at> schrieb

There were some other threads on this issue, maybe you will find
something useful there:

<http://www.google.com/groups?q=dotnet +imagelist+tran sparency+png>


If I had been so clever to ask google first, it would have saved me about 5
hours.... ;-((
--
Armin

Nov 20 '05 #4
* "Armin Zingler" <az*******@free net.de> scripsit:
There were some other threads on this issue, maybe you will find
something useful there:

<http://www.google.com/groups?q=dotnet +imagelist+tran sparency+png>


If I had been so clever to ask google first, it would have saved me about 5
hours.... ;-((


Google is your friend!

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>
Nov 20 '05 #5
Thanks guys for excellent help :-)

As a workaround I've ended up doctoring the png's into bmp's with a
background color matching my app, to fake transparency... . :-D Annoying
extra-work, but it works..... Hope MS knows about this issue and addresses
it...

Thanks again,
Roger
"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:bv******** ****@ID-208219.news.uni-berlin.de...
* "Roger" <ro******@hotma il.com> scripsit:
...or am I missing something?

Setup:

- I've created an empty Winforms project, and added two buttons A and B.
- Button A's Image property is set to point to a imagefile calles
"users.png"
- Added an imagelist and added the SAME image to this list, setting the
properties (size etc.) exactly the same as for A's Image property.
- Set button B's ImageList property to the new imagelist created, and it's imageindex to 0.

The picture now shows on both buttons, but while Button A's image looks
great, Button B's image looks awful, with a blue border around
it....remember: It is the exact same picture, size, etc....


That's an issue with the ImageList control. The imagelist will support
bitmaps only when used at design time. Nevertheless, I didn't get it
work with adding the images at runtime (the blue changes to black).

There were some other threads on this issue, maybe you will find
something useful there:

<http://www.google.com/groups?q=dotnet +imagelist+tran sparency+png>

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

Nov 20 '05 #6
* "Roger" <ro******@hotma il.com> scripsit:
As a workaround I've ended up doctoring the png's into bmp's with a
background color matching my app, to fake transparency... . :-D Annoying
extra-work, but it works..... Hope MS knows about this issue and addresses
it...


But this won't allow an alpha chanel, or am I missing something?

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>
Nov 20 '05 #7
True :-)

It seemed at first glance to work, but no it is far from what I
wanted....but I haven't found a way to "hack" this from the links you
posted. Maybe I'm giving up way to easily.... :-)
"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:bv******** ****@ID-208219.news.uni-berlin.de...
* "Roger" <ro******@hotma il.com> scripsit:
As a workaround I've ended up doctoring the png's into bmp's with a
background color matching my app, to fake transparency... . :-D Annoying
extra-work, but it works..... Hope MS knows about this issue and addresses it...


But this won't allow an alpha chanel, or am I missing something?

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

Nov 20 '05 #8
* "Roger" <ro******@hotma il.com> scripsit:
It seemed at first glance to work, but no it is far from what I
wanted....but I haven't found a way to "hack" this from the links you
posted. Maybe I'm giving up way to easily.... :-)


I had a look at the links I posted and I see that there is no good
solution to the problem available.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>
Nov 20 '05 #9
If I convert my .png to an .ico file, and add it to my project as an
embedded resource it seems to handle the transparency problem moe
gracefully, but still the edges seems jagged and rough...

Using this code:

ImageList1.Imag es.Add(New
Icon(System.Ref lection.Assembl y.GetExecutingA ssembly.GetMani festResourceStr e
am("testIcons.u sers128.ico")). )
ImageList1.Imag eSize = New System.Drawing. Size(128, 128)

Button1.ImageLi st = ImageList1
Button1.ImageIn dex = 0
"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:Or******** *****@tk2msftng p13.phx.gbl...
* "Roger" <ro******@hotma il.com> scripsit:
It seemed at first glance to work, but no it is far from what I
wanted....but I haven't found a way to "hack" this from the links you
posted. Maybe I'm giving up way to easily.... :-)


I had a look at the links I posted and I see that there is no good
solution to the problem available.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

Nov 20 '05 #10

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