Icon Transparency

[rube]

Does anyone know why when I create an icon with an icon maker and put it on a button, it looks fine, unless I go to another machine on the network that has a different color scheme, I then see the transparency in the background color of the computer I originally created it on.

Standard Access icons though do not do this, (i.e. the Exit, Add Module, etc.)

Is there a trick to this or this not possible.

Thanks for any help,

Rube

 

[Fizzio]

As far as I am aware, Access does not support Transparent graphics, hence the display you are encountering. A sort of work around this is to fill the button face with an image which will look a little better but you will still see the beveling in a different colour.be

 

[ghudson]

Are you sure that the background of the icon file is really 'transparent'? Or is it just the same color as the command button in your form on your PC?

You can keep a GIF files transparency but you have jump through a few hoops to do it if you want to "insert" a graphic file [GIF] into your form.

Open a new word document
Insert the gif into the document [Insert \ Picture \ From File]
Select and copy the picture
Open your access form in design view
Paste the image from the clip board [Edit \ Paste Special \ Picture]
Modify the OLE objects properties [Back Style = Transparent], [Border Style = Transparent]

HTH

 

[rube]

Thanks for the replies. In my icon make program, there is a "transparency" setting I use for my background, but I think you are right, it must be the same color as the form background. The image I posted will also appear with the background if I change the color scheme on the computer I designed it on, so it has to be pulling from Windows.

What do you do for icons? I wanted to get away from the same standard Access icons, and for a lot of our App's command buttons, the standard ones are not appropriate for what we need.

Thanks for the help,

Rube

(I will try the .gif recommendation?)