Re: OT: the toolbar (tools.bmp) and building Vim on WinXP

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on 3/17/2003 6:14 PM Martin Karlsson said the following:
>
> Hi. First of all, this isn't really a cream question, I hope that's
> ok (just this once). If not, I'll take this question over to the
> regular vim-list.

Here's better since it's our resource.

> I followed the excellent mini-tutorial on compiling Vim on win32
> found on <URL:http://cream.sourceforge.net/vim.html>. (A very nice,
> clear and easy-to-follow tutorial I might add; many thanks!)

Thanks!

> However, if I try to use the Gnome2 toolbar icon resource
> (tools.bmp, <URL:http://cream.sourceforge.net/tools.bmp>), the
> result is... well, just plain ugly. I believe this is a problem on
> my end, but would like your help in debugging the problem.
> 
> As I'm not on that machine right now, so I'm afraid I can't produce
> a screenshot at the moment. The toolbar looks... eh...
> non-transparent. I can see the actual images of the icons, but
> they're against a hazy white-ish background.
> 
> I notice that when the build is finished, I have a new .bmp in the
> src dir, tools16.bmp, and I naturally suspect the issue is something
> about the color-depth of... well, what?
> 
> Any ideas, suggestions?

(I take it if you're using our HowTo, you're on Windows.) 

Definitely sounds like a color depth problem. Try the attached 16
color .bmp and see how it works. For some reason, Vim's implementation
on Windows can sometimes only handle transparency for 4-bit color
bitmap resources. (All other platforms handle 24-bit!)

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