On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Joel Holdsworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I've hit a bit of a wall with alpha blended icons. CreateIcon is working > fine for icon creation, but ExtractIcon and LoadIconFromResource etc. > are all proving more of a problem. All of these use various GDI DIB > functions to coerce the icon bitmap to the correct colour depth and > size. The problem is that preserving the alpha channel through these DIB > functions seems to be impossible because they go via X11, so until the > dib engine is merged (after hell freezes over) I'm not sure I can go > much further. > > Joel > > > > >
If you say X11 might be problematic note that more and more display drivers are offering visuals with alpha, so 32-bit ones instead of 24-bit. You could force the selection of such a visual in winex11.drv for testing. Roderick
