Help!!!! --Transparent Gifs--

[TetraD]

How do i make a transparent gif in visual basic y'know what i mean with the picture showing but not the white background behind it...

[Fox]

Don't use GIFs... pleeeeeez! ;)

Ok, I think you have to put it into an Image instead of using a Picturebox...

I was just wondering why you shouldn't use gifs. Are they evil or something. Seriously, I want to know.

Mr.T3

[Fox]

Well, they are very slow... really. And you can only have 256 colors... The only advantage is the 1-bit transparency which you can easy have with BitBlt or DDraw ;)

Bitmaps are better because they are specifically supported by GDI API

[samdv]

...but bitmaps always struck me as cumbersome and unnecessary memory munchers. I have a tendency to use JPEGs anywhere other than in Picture boxes - am I right to do so?!?!?!?

[HarryW]

Well I don't know the specifics of how Jpegs are organized, but as far as I understand they're a compressed file format. So it's a bit like dealing with a zipped file. Bitmaps are a much more straightforward way of storing images, and (I would expect) easier and faster to deal with.