As a follow up to my 'help me please' post, I've now managed to sort it out.
The page(s) here:
do indeed tell you successfully how to get a nice alpha blended splash screen for your Delphi app.
However, there are two bits of extra info worth sharing.
Firstly, on 1st page (link above), the instructions on creating the premultiplied bitmap misses one vital piece of information.
In Photoshop, when you do your File/new, and set your image to be 32 bit and transparent, once your blank image is created, go to Image/Mode, and set it to 8 bits/Channel. RGB should be ticked.
Mine was defaulting to 32 bits/Channel which was preventing me from getting the option to save as bitmap.
The other tip is when you move onto pages 2 and 3, and want to use PNG instead of BMP for the splash screen, ensure you go here:
to download the GraphicEx library. The version supplied in the project files zip is missing some units.
(this is actually mentioned in the comments on the tutorial page, I noticed after I worked it out...)
Have fun.
Steve (Delphi 2007 & XP)
The page(s) here:
do indeed tell you successfully how to get a nice alpha blended splash screen for your Delphi app.
However, there are two bits of extra info worth sharing.
Firstly, on 1st page (link above), the instructions on creating the premultiplied bitmap misses one vital piece of information.
In Photoshop, when you do your File/new, and set your image to be 32 bit and transparent, once your blank image is created, go to Image/Mode, and set it to 8 bits/Channel. RGB should be ticked.
Mine was defaulting to 32 bits/Channel which was preventing me from getting the option to save as bitmap.
The other tip is when you move onto pages 2 and 3, and want to use PNG instead of BMP for the splash screen, ensure you go here:
to download the GraphicEx library. The version supplied in the project files zip is missing some units.
(this is actually mentioned in the comments on the tutorial page, I noticed after I worked it out...)
Have fun.
Steve (Delphi 2007 & XP)
