On Oct 30, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Joe Strout wrote:
>> I just tried using the RB toolbar for the first time on Windows, and
>> the icons it creates are horrible. I supply it with a proper alpha-
>> channel picture, and the result gives me just the opposite: no alpha
>> channel. Just transparent.
>
> That's a Windows toolbar for you.
>
>> Is there a workaround besides guessing the background color and
>> drawing it in myself?
>
> Here's the relevant bit from the notes I've been collecting on a
> "Best Practices" book for RB... though work has kept me so busy
> lately, I don't know if or when I'll get around to actually writing
> it...
>
> Windows supports only 1-bit masking on a toolbar icon, so a
> beautifully antialiased icon for Mac or Linux will look horrible on
> Windows... UNLESS the icon is drawn onto a neutral background color.
> Use &cDEDED0 as the background color of the icon, and it'll look good
> on all platforms.
This is fixed in R4. My icons that always looked fabulous in OS X now
look equally fabulous in Windows.
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Brad Rhine
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