problem with transparency in custom icons.

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I am facing problem while adding custom icons to CommandBarButton in toolbar.

I have icons which are in png format with transparency. For showing them I

have created mask with black and white pixels and set button.picture to png

icon and button.mask to the mask png. I am able to see the icons.

The problem here is with pixels in icon which are semi-transparent (alpha>0

but <255) like shading in the boundary. What should be

the color of mask for those pixels. If I make it white, I cant see those

pixels. If I make it black, those pixels look in a dark color most likely

because the background has now become visible.

Are the semi-transparent pixels allowed in the icon.
 
Semi-transparent pixels aren't supported. In fact the spec for a command bar

button image is 16x16 pixels with 8-bit color in a BMP file. Anything else

may or may not display correctly.

"Saeed" <Saeed> wrote in message

news:7871DB86-A3C0-48E3-AD92-E77A878296FA@microsoft.com...
> I am facing problem while adding custom icons to CommandBarButton in
> toolbar.
> I have icons which are in png format with transparency. For showing them I
> have created mask with black and white pixels and set button.picture to
> png
> icon and button.mask to the mask png. I am able to see the icons.
> The problem here is with pixels in icon which are semi-transparent
> (alpha>0
> but <255) like shading in the boundary. What should be
> the color of mask for those pixels. If I make it white, I cant see those
> pixels. If I make it black, those pixels look in a dark color most likely
> because the background has now become visible.
> Are the semi-transparent pixels allowed in the icon.
 
Are transparent and semi transparent pixel images supported as Ribbon button

icons, as I do not see any mask kind of thing for adding transparency in

ribbon icons. I am adding ribbon button using xml file and providing icon

using getImage callback.
wrote:


> Semi-transparent pixels aren't supported. In fact the spec for a command bar
> button image is 16x16 pixels with 8-bit color in a BMP file. Anything else
> may or may not display correctly.

> >

>

> "Saeed" <Saeed> wrote in message
> news:7871DB86-A3C0-48E3-AD92-E77A878296FA@microsoft.com...
> >I am facing problem while adding custom icons to CommandBarButton in
> >toolbar.
> > I have icons which are in png format with transparency. For showing them I
> > have created mask with black and white pixels and set button.picture to
> > png
> > icon and button.mask to the mask png. I am able to see the icons.
> > The problem here is with pixels in icon which are semi-transparent
> > (alpha>0
> > but <255) like shading in the boundary. What should be
> > the color of mask for those pixels. If I make it white, I cant see those
> > pixels. If I make it black, those pixels look in a dark color most likely
> > because the background has now become visible.
> > Are the semi-transparent pixels allowed in the icon.


>
 
For the ribbon the transparency is stored in the alpha layer of the image.

Usually the best results are from PNG files.

"Saeed" <Saeed> wrote in message

news:5BAE6024-CD28-483A-9328-2AC94BB29C31@microsoft.com...
> Are transparent and semi transparent pixel images supported as Ribbon
> button
> icons, as I do not see any mask kind of thing for adding transparency in
> ribbon icons. I am adding ribbon button using xml file and providing icon
> using getImage callback.
 
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