Gregg Woodcock wrote:
I would like my app's icon to be transparent (instead of white block background) but as I understand it, bitmap does not support transparency (unlike other image formats like GIF). So how is this done (I am using Microsoft Paint on W2K if that makes the explanation easier)?
When you import the Bmp resource to your application you can assign a transparency property to it:
if you are using Palm OS Resource Editor Application for example: Open the bitmap icon, go to "App Icon Bitmap" and enable the "Transparent" checkbox for your icon resource. After it you can assign a resource color to it: for example in case of of a 16-Bit Resource if you want to use blank as transparency use: (255,255,255) as transparency color.
Remember to do the procedure for each of your icons and 256 colors bitmaps use just a 1 byte index as transparency instead of 3 bytes.
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