Custom Splash Screens

**wizard509** · 12 July 2013, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by Rik

Oops!
I was a bit pre-occupied with the size of the splashscreen and being portrait and so on.
Well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

EXCUSES, EXCUSES, EXCUSES!
Good man Rick. Stick to your guns even if it is only just an excuse.

**Jimi King** · 12 July 2013, 09:24 PM

I quite like some of Xara's earlier ones. I also like a bit of bling, so here's a sort of Best of Xara created in fond memory of Eye Candy Chrome. It's "versionless".

Probably a bit messy and OTT, but it works for me. Hopefully it's OK to use the previous logos in this way.

**Rik** · 12 July 2013, 09:36 PM

Pretty good, Jimi.

You didn't want to share your .bmp file?

**Jimi King** · 12 July 2013, 09:50 PM

I was unable to attach it before, so I saved it as a JPG instead. Let me try again...

**angelize** · 12 July 2013, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by Gare

use the alpha channel manufacturers use for transparency.

-g

How?

**Gare** · 12 July 2013, 10:16 PM

My bad, Frances.

Gary meant to say, "Even though you can't do exactly what you want with Xara's splash screen, don't let this reality dampen your imagination. Software companies do all sorts of weird and wonderful things with splash screens, including making them 32-bit which results in a splash screen that can have areas missing."

You can't do this with Xara...or can you? I'll try to make a 32-bit image and save it as a bmp and see if my machine blows up or not, okay? BMPs CAN have transparency. It's just that VERY few programs know how to write a BMP w/ and alpha.

-g

**angelize** · 12 July 2013, 10:25 PM

I can save you some time Gary I already tried Xara's BMP export and Alpha is not supported for BMP. But if we could find a program that can I suppose it might be possible to export from Xara as a png and use another program to export it as a bmp with transparency

**mwenz** · 12 July 2013, 10:57 PM

I can export transparent BMP files from PhotoLine. They work correctly in photo editing software, but not in many other types of applications, Xara included. Xara refuses to open one, AI opens it but without honoring the alpha channel.

I think that either Xara would need to allow the alpha channel support in BMP files, use a PNG or whatever, in order for the splash to support transparency.

Mike

Edit to add...the attached screen shot is from Word. The XDP8 splash has a rectangular hole, there is a blue rectangle behind the imported BMP with an alpha channel. Word? Go figure.