[AccessD] A2003: Masked bitmaps as button images?

>>There's no way these features aren't offered in Access.

ROTFL

Sorry, but those are famous last words!  In fact, many of the things you
can do in VB aren't available in Access forms ... And vice versa.
Access controls are often more like ActiveX controls than the ones used
in VB.  Have you tried using a product like IrfanView to get a
transparent background?  I'm just blue-skying here because I've never
seriously tried to play with buton icons in Access.  It's simply been
too much work for the result.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Hawkins [mailto:clh at christopherhawkins.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:42 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] A2003: Masked bitmaps as button images?


All,

I'm trying to create some pretty navigation buttons for a client.  I
have a great set of icons to use, but cannot figure out how to tell
Access to render each icon's mask color as transparant.

This works like a chamr in VB, of course - but I need it to work in
Access as well!

I thought that the ImageList controls might work, but then I discovered
that although I can put my icons into the ImageList, I cannot assign
those images to any of my buttons.  

I've got to be doing something wrong.  There's no way these features
aren't offered in Access.

Heeeeeelp...

-Christopher-


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