toolbar image quality... :(

Hey guys, 

I am having heaps of trouble with image quality of toolbarbutton... it is simply
shit... 


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I am very upset with the quality of the image on toolbar button... I am using
.NET 1.1, using c# in delphi 2006 ... 


please help!!!!!!!! 

What is the format of your bitmaps?
32 bit ARGB?
32 bit RGB?
...
8 bit 265 color table?

Do you use the transparent color?
..... 

Thanks for the reply
I have tried using GlyFX's Icons of type PNG and size is 24x24. I am using
imagelist to add my icons to the toolbar. Before importing the images to
imagelist i change the propetries to following: 
image size: 24, 24 (tried diffrent sizes)
colour depth: 32 bit (tried other depths as well)

NOTE: I reload all the images from the GlzFX each time is change the size or
quality otherwise it takes the embedded image in the .rex file and changes
it...

Toolbar is having following properties:
style: flat (tried using the regular one as well)
Autosize: true
Size: 50, 50 (sometimes it sizes according to this or sometimes it does the
autosize)
Imagelist: is the one which i created

all the other properties in the toolbar and imagelist are same... 
Its quite anoying with the image quality as GUI is for end user and if the image
quality is shit then it doesn't look like a professional windows app. Please
help... 



"Horst Reichert" <horst.reichert@rt-science.de> wrote:
>What is the format of your bitmaps?
>32 bit ARGB?
>32 bit RGB?
>...
>8 bit 265 color table?
>
>Do you use the transparent color?
>..... 
>
>

The major problem is that the standard toolbar button images do not support 
transparency (even with VS-Studio 2005). Thus fancy drop down shadows etc., 
that make normal application icons so nice looking, will display as ugly 
dark grey borders. Thus be sure that designing your bitmaps for tool buttons 
do produce them without XP-Transparency. When creating the image list, you 
should modify the ColorDepth to Dpth32Bit or Depth24Bit before adding the 
images.

I hope your design will improve with these hints.

I also hope that someday transparent XP-bitmaps will be displayed correctly 
with the standard toolbar buttons.



Regards Horst

thanks horst, got a dojy way to  fix it but after each
		Application.EnableVisualStyles();
do 
	Application.DoEvents();

And it works fine.... lol
Thanks again



"Horst Reichert" <horst.reichert@rt-science.de> wrote:
>The major problem is that the standard toolbar button images do not support

>transparency (even with VS-Studio 2005). Thus fancy drop down shadows etc.,

>that make normal application icons so nice looking, will display as ugly 
>dark grey borders. Thus be sure that designing your bitmaps for tool buttons

>do produce them without XP-Transparency. When creating the image list, you 
>should modify the ColorDepth to Dpth32Bit or Depth24Bit before adding the 
>images.
>
>I hope your design will improve with these hints.
>
>I also hope that someday transparent XP-bitmaps will be displayed correctly

>with the standard toolbar buttons.
>
>
>
>Regards Horst
>
>