Problem with icon color in .NET Windows Forms menu

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Problem with icon color in .NET Windows Forms menu

How'd you get the image into the project? I'm guessing it has to do with some color being misinterpreted as an alpha channel. I'd save the icon you want as a .PNG to see if that fixes it.

Mark P Neyer 2009-07-22 19:48:31

The icon was a PNG to begin with. And I even changed it from 8-bit grayscale to full 32-bit image - but no luck. I even tried deleting any non-important chunks leaving just the data because some MS products (like IE) have gamma issues. But nop. The weird thing is - the image when imported in the forms resource is getting messed up. But even if I modify the resource file "by hand" and fix it, it does not help.

Vilx- 2009-07-22 19:53:14

I tried exporting the messed up version and comparing it to the correct version - seems that the alpha channel for the outline of the icons is reset. But some other pixels have their alpha channels correct. Weird...

Vilx- 2009-07-22 20:01:47

D'oh! Found it!

The MenuItem's TransparentColor was set to black, so it made the outline of the image disappear (which was black with about 50% transparency)!

Vilx- 2009-07-22 20:17:02

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