Transparent bitmap (bmp)

[Intbel]

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The black background. As I said, all other programs see a bmp with a black background (including web browsers). Right-click download the image and open it in Xtreme and you'll see what I mean.

I did - open/imports as a solid bmp.
Typing in its url in browser makes no difference.
Something doesn't add up, I can make no sense of what you have there.

[stratocast]

so it is

Yaaay!! I was beginning to worry. I guess I can cancel the exorcism now.

[parahandy]

you are quite right your black backgrounnd does not show up when pasted in extreme but the design itself I applied stained glas transparency to it and you see the result

[Intbel]

Norman, try this, see what you make of it:

http://www.talkgraphics.com/attachme...1&d=1160860092

[Intbel]

Okies, I think someone is having a laugh.
Make yourself a transparent gif then change the extension to bmp.

You now have a transparent bmp.

Try it ..

[stratocast]

Intbel, I don't know what is wrong your end but I have re-downloaded my own bmp image twice now, by right-click>save image and by using the url you supplied. When opened or imported to Xtreme I get a bmp file with a transparent background.

The image I posted is not a renamed gif or anything else. I produced it in the manner I described in my original post. Trust me, I'm a doctor.

However, I've just been playing around with this again and I noticed that when I export to bmp, all the boxes/dropdowns in the Palette Options tab are greyed out. Hitting export then produces a bmp with a transparent background.

I then exported again, but I clicked on the Colour Depth dropdown and TrueColor appeared. On hitting Export this produced, predictably, a normal bmp file (solid white background).

Thereafter, I could not reproduce the greyed out boxes/dropdowns (everything had reverted to what you would expect when exporting to bmp).

Then, after exporting the same graphic to png (TrueColor + Alpha), when I next attempted to export to bmp, all the boxes/dropdowns where greyed out again and I produced a bmp with transparent background again.

I must stress, that I am talking about a bmp file that has a transparent background which appears only to be viewable in that state within Xtreme.

Further than this I don't know what else to say. If you don't believe me, so be it. It's not that important anyway, just an interesting event that I happened to notice.

[Intbel]

It's okay .. I suspended disbelief >grin<

Just something which I have never come across before, doesn't make sense and I look at all angles.

Someone playing a spoof is always a possible angle - I have done it myself >evil grin<

The only way I could duplicate it was to rename a gif as a bmp.

Whatever you did there is weird ... another hidden attribute of Xara you have uncovered, LOL!

("Hidden Attribute" is more positive term for "annoying intermittent glitch")

[Mike S]

its transperant in Xtreme here. opened it in windows picture viewer and the background was black.

[stratocast]

("Hidden Attribute" is more positive term for "annoying intermittent glitch")

Yeah, you're quite right. It's just another of Xtreme's hidden attributes/bonus features/fun functions etc. I just wish I could think of some use for it

its transperant in Xtreme here. opened it in windows picture viewer and the background was black.

Glad someone else has seen it.

[Christine Farrelly]

Confirmed - it does open as transparent in Xara. Would be great if this could also work in browsers.

Perhaps Xara can throw some light on this phenomenon.

Christine