pmoore3365
IS-IT--Management
I need help putting a picture on a form with a transparent background. I had a picture with a white background, but I can't get ride of the white. How do I do this?
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I assume the white background you're talking about is part of the picture. You've make the background of your image control transparent, but that won't get you what you want. What that means is, if the control's borders are bigger than the picture's, the area within the control but outside of the picture will be transparent.
You want the picture background to be transparent. Most image file formats don't support a transparent background. GIF does, by defining one color in the palette to be the transparent color. You have to set up the picture file in an image editor that supports GIF transparency.
But don't bother, because an experiment tells me that the image control ignores the transparent color and displays it as a normal color anyway. In Access 97, at least. In other words, you can't do it.
If your pictures don't change, you could work around it by setting the form background to a specific color (not a system color), and modifying the picture background to the same color. To avoid problems (sometimes you get "rounding" to the "nearest color", depending on your monitor's color depth and other things), stick to the standard Windows colors. As a rule of thumb, these have red, green, and blue components of 0, 64, 128, 192, or 255 in various combinations. For instance, dark cyan is red=0, green=128, blue=128.
You want the picture background to be transparent. Most image file formats don't support a transparent background. GIF does, by defining one color in the palette to be the transparent color. You have to set up the picture file in an image editor that supports GIF transparency.
But don't bother, because an experiment tells me that the image control ignores the transparent color and displays it as a normal color anyway. In Access 97, at least. In other words, you can't do it.
If your pictures don't change, you could work around it by setting the form background to a specific color (not a system color), and modifying the picture background to the same color. To avoid problems (sometimes you get "rounding" to the "nearest color", depending on your monitor's color depth and other things), stick to the standard Windows colors. As a rule of thumb, these have red, green, and blue components of 0, 64, 128, 192, or 255 in various combinations. For instance, dark cyan is red=0, green=128, blue=128.
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