RSVIEW 32 Transparent Background from *.bmp

deca · Nov 14, 2009

I'm trying to make the background transparent on a bitmap I have, I read the help and did a paste special and created a OLE opbject, is there a eye dropper or something so you can select back ground colour? I can't see a parameter for it? Is color 255,255,255 always invisible or something?

robertmee · Nov 14, 2009

deca said:
I'm trying to make the background transparent on a bitmap I have, I read the help and did a paste special and created a OLE opbject, is there a eye dropper or something so you can select back ground colour? I can't see a parameter for it? Is color 255,255,255 always invisible or something?

I usually just copy it into Paint and set the BG color to match the window color in Rsview32.

ijm51000 · Nov 15, 2009

Don't think you can make .bmp files transparent as such, it needs to be .gif or .png there is a magic pink that is colour code ff00ff detail here http://wiki.engine001.com/Resources.htm which I think is what you are after.

If you want to export as a gif take a look at the excellent and free gimp for windows.

Cheers

Ian

Eddie Willers · Nov 15, 2009

The only way I've been able to insert a picture with a transparent background is to save it as a GIF, and anything in black will be transparent when you insert it into RSView32 as an OLE object.

The Help file doesn't make perfect sense about BMP files in this case, since everything I've read says that BMP file format does not support transparency.

allentcm · Nov 15, 2009

True black color (0,0,0) will give you transparent for your bmp file, but you need to enable the transparency option for that image. Here is my example using bmp file as transparent in FTView Studio, I think the transparent setting is quite similar in RSView 32. The bitmap on the left is the original image and the bitmap on the right is with transparency enable.

Eddie Willers · Nov 15, 2009

RSView32 does not have the same ability to select the Transparency property of a *.GIF file like FactoryTalk View Studio does.

I still wonder what the User Manual is referring to about linking a BMP file as an OLE object to allow transparency. Maybe there's a mask function I'm not familiar with.

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