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Norm.Campbell



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 5:16 am    Post subject: PNG transparency Reply with quote

Is it possible to add a transparency layer when creating PNG files?

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try seaching Google for "png with transparent background".

If you are programming a ClearWin+ application that exports a png file then perhaps you need to add opacity to the image. Try searching in ftn95.chm for "opacity".
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Norm.Campbell



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 9:38 am    Post subject: PNG transparency Reply with quote

I should have been more explicit.

Currently I have a work-around, where I load the JPG images into Photoshop; define a "transparent" area; and export the resulting edited images as PNGs.

This has been fine for the occasional PNG file, but now I'm looking at quite a number of yield map images with non-rectangular boundaries, all of which need editing.

What I'd like to be able to do is use something like PUT_DIB_BLOCK (which I use now to write my JPGs) to write a 24-bit PNG file, where the 4th byte is the transparency layer.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PUT_DIB_BLOCK@ can currently be used to export bmp or jpeg files but not png files.

In theory it could be extended to png files but off hand I don't know how big a task that would be.

EXPORT_IMAGE@ can be used with png files so that provides a possible alternative.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 11:28 am    Post subject: PNG transparency Reply with quote

I read that PUT_DIB_BLOCK worked for PNG files, so I changed the extension, and my code wrote a PNG file.

The resulting PNG file (according to its properties) is 24-bit, and displays when I click on it.

It opens in Paint, but not in Photoshop CS4.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't see any evidence in the documentation or the code to suggest that PUT_DIB_BLOCK@ supports png files.

I am guessing that the output is the same as for a bmp file and that some applications can tell the difference.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You guessed correctly.

My code only appears to write a PNG file because I gave the file name a PNG extension.

When I renamed the output "PNG" file as .BMP, CS4 recognised it (as did Paint).
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