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darmir
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 Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:16 am
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Hey all,
I have created a few buttons which I've never used before but thought it would be fun to play around with. Is there a way to use your own image on the button instead of the bitmap images that is able to be selected in image Name field? I would like to have a button with a png image that lays on top of it. |
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Fizgar
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:47 am
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Make sure the image you want to use is in .bmp format. Then in the options tab of the button copy the file path for the .bmp image into the Image Name box. You can also use the %btnimage function from the command line to assign the image you wish to use.
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Tech
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Joined: 18 Oct 2000
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:55 am
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Yes you can. You can put the full path and filename of the file (it must be BMP) in the image name field. For example:
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darmir
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:56 pm
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I wish it could be something other than a bmp. I would rather use png files.
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Zugg
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:14 pm
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It's a limitation of the 3rd party button component for Delphi that CMUD uses. It's actually possible that some other formats will work, but you'll just need to experiment and try it. But since PNG support requires supporting alpha transparency, it might not look right even if it loads. Adding full support for additional image formats is on the to-do list for the future.
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:24 pm
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Well I tried PNG and JPG and no luck there. I didn't try gif though, so that might be something. However the specific error message says it's not a valid bitmap, so I'm not sure any other file type will work.
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Zugg
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:37 pm
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Yep, that's what I was afraid of. That means they are not calling the generic Delphi image loading routines (which support JPG and PNG) but are loading the BMP image themselves. I doubt GIF will work either then. Oh well, it was worth testing.
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darmir
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:01 pm
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Thanks for checking it out.. I guess I'll just try to create my images in bmp format.
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