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    Exclamation Urgent Icon help needed.

    Help - just had one of my best customers ring up needing help with an icon - I'm in print and design and tend to have an answer to all their questions - now if it was on a Mac, there'd be no problem, but it seems they have developed some sort of estimating system inhouse which needs an icon to finish off the look.
    They have a logo designed but want to apply it to their .exe launcher - no probs they say - (I haven't been able to check this out as I'm busy running a press for last-minute jobs prior to xmas break)

    Problem is they want a tranparency round the icon - I immediately thought of using a gif - would this work - any thoughts on this would be really helpful.



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    Re: Urgent Icon help needed.

    I'd imagine so, but wouldn't be able to check without trial and error

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    Re: Urgent Icon help needed.

    Icons in windows up to vista haven't really change scince windows NT.

    They are a simple a collection of 16,256,16kb bitmap images, which the best one the system can render is used.

    Transparency is done by a colour key. As such you can only have opaque or transparent, nothing in between.

    Until vista, which brought in more advanced icon ideas.

    Been microsoft, this information si very well document on the MSDN.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Urgent Icon help needed.

    so use a gif?
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    Re: Urgent Icon help needed.

    so it would appear to be more complicated than I thought

    Creating Windows XP Icons
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    Re: Urgent Icon help needed.

    only if you want to do it properly.

    you can, if you wish, simply create a 32bit one.

    however sometimes its good to do things proper.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: Urgent Icon help needed.

    cheers!
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