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...
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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...
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
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
...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?!?!?!?
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.