Hey guys,
I've been looking around all morning trying to figure out how to create a toolbar that uses 32x32x256 icons... The toolbar works, just can't figure out how to make the icons look better.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
James Emmrich
I've been looking around all morning trying to figure out how to create a toolbar that uses 32x32x256 icons... The toolbar works, just can't figure out how to make the icons look better.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
James Emmrich
Probably your graphics card settings(Just a guess). Try IrfanView it can save any gif, jpg, bmp -> .ico just resize the image files to 32x32. :)
James,
With higher colour counts for the toolbar bitmap, you have to approach the images in a different manner. Things like anti-aliasing and more gradual colour blending seems to do the trick. I preferentially use 16 colour bitmaps because they are smaller and while they have a more restricted range in what you can do with them, with practice they work OK.
Regards,
hutch@movsd.com
With higher colour counts for the toolbar bitmap, you have to approach the images in a different manner. Things like anti-aliasing and more gradual colour blending seems to do the trick. I preferentially use 16 colour bitmaps because they are smaller and while they have a more restricted range in what you can do with them, with practice they work OK.
Regards,
hutch@movsd.com
test this out this should be what your looking for. its just a basic window with a toolbar on it using an 8bit bmp for a background image. although im using a bmp this should also work with icons. pay special attention to the ImageList_Create flag. you can set this to take up to 32bit bmp's. if this isnt what your looking for...... oops sorry!
i forgot in the code to destroy the loaded image and also the imagelist.
i forgot in the code to destroy the loaded image and also the imagelist.
Thanks guys! All I was missin was ILC_COLOR16 in imagelist_create
:alright:
James Emmrich
:alright:
James Emmrich