Re: how to make icons more beautiful?

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From: William Stacey [MVP] (staceywREMOVE_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/03/04


Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:02:46 -0400

Most of the MS icons use the ~pinkish back color for the transparent color
(I think color 255,0,255). Then just set the transparent color property of
the control to the 255,0,255 color. You can replace the black here with
this color using paint program or you can try to set trans color to black to
remove the background black, but that is not good as most icons have some
black in them and you don't want that to disappear. I would grab new icons
that have to background color set to color above or change your icons to
match. HTH

-- 
William Stacey, MVP
"sto" <cnkknd@msn-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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> look at this picture
> http://upload.cs99.net/e.gif
>
> i use the function SHGetFileInfo to get file icons. but these icons
> are not very nice. there are some black things round of the icons.
>
> many applications use system icons for files. how did their
> programmers solve this problem in these apps?
>
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