http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:38:25 +0000 Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:48:02 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=857 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=857&PID=2867&title=creating-alpha-icons#2867 Author: Ark42
Subject: 857
Posted: 24 August 2004 at 1:48pm


Glad somebody liked it :)
Make sure you have v2.2 - I think I posted it to my site, but maybenot. It fixes a couple minor bugs, I think TGA files were messed up forone thing.

]]> Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:48:02 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=857&PID=2867&title=creating-alpha-icons#2867 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=857&PID=2866&title=creating-alpha-icons#2866 Author: Kappy
Subject: 857
Posted: 24 August 2004 at 1:40pm

Thanks for the utility, Ark!  It is exactly what I need.  It is strangely bizzarre how nothing supportes 32-bit bmps.  Now the XTPro seems to have the alpha issues sorted out (v9.10) I am going to try and use them in a new product.]]> Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:40:24 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=857&PID=2866&title=creating-alpha-icons#2866 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=857&PID=2263&title=creating-alpha-icons#2263 Author: Ark42
Subject: 857
Posted: 18 June 2004 at 11:52pm


I needed more features still, to deal with multiple formats in a .icofile as well as to automate tiled images where you have lots of littleimages all in one big file, so here is v2.0...


AlphaHlp v2.0 Usage:

To convert from one format to another:
        alphahlp -f(ext) -c(ext) from_filename to_filename

To split a 32bpp image into a 24bpp image and an 8bpp image:
        alphahlp -f(ext) -s 32bpp_filename 24bpp_filename 8bpp_filename
To join a 24bpp image and an 8bpp image to form a 32bpp image:
        alphahlp -f(ext) -j 24bpp_filename 8bpp_filename 32bpp_filename

To split a multipage image into one singlepage file per page:
        alphahlp -f(ext) -m multipage_filename file_prefix file_suffix
To append a singlepage image to a multipage image:
        alphahlp -f(ext) -a multipage_filename singlepage_filename

To split a tiled image into one smaller image per tile:
        alphahlp -f(ext) -t -w# -h# tiled_filename file_prefix file_suffix
To insert a single tile into a tiled image:
        alphahlp -f(ext) -i -w# -h# -c# tiled_filename singletile_filename

More details:
        alphahlp -?
]]> Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:52:37 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=857&PID=2263&title=creating-alpha-icons#2263 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=857&PID=2245&title=creating-alpha-icons#2245 Author: Ark42
Subject: 857
Posted: 17 June 2004 at 5:29pm



One suggestion for the Codejock library I would like to see is that currently I use:
    XTPImageManager()->SetMaskColor(RGB(0, 0, 0));
    XTPImageManager()->SetIcons(bmAlphaIcons,nIDMenuBarIcon s, _countof(nIDMenuBarIcons), CSize(16, 16),xtpImageNormal, XTPImageManager()->IsAlphaIconsSupported());

Instead of SetMaskColor how about SetAlphaThreshhold so that you can,say, use all of the pixels that have an alpha value >=128 instead?

]]> Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:29:03 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=857&PID=2245&title=creating-alpha-icons#2245 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=857&PID=2244&title=creating-alpha-icons#2244 Author: Ark42
Subject: 857
Posted: 17 June 2004 at 5:22pm


I had a problem with not much software supporting creating 32bppimages, and the programs I did have only supported PNG/TGA/TIF, not BMPor ICO, and even then it can be a pain to work with 32bpp imagessomtimes. So here is a little command line utility I whipped up thatcan convert, split, and join 8/24/32bpp images in PNG/TGA/TIF/BMP/ICOformats:


http://ark42.com/freeimage/alphahlp.exe


C:\>alphahlp

Usage:

To convert from one format to another:
        alphahlp -f(ext) -c(ext) from_filename to_filename

To split a 32bpp image into a 24bpp image and an 8bpp image:
        alphahlp -f(ext) -s 32bpp_filename 24bpp_filename 8bpp_filename

To join a 24bpp image and an 8bpp image to form a 32bpp image:
        alphahlp -f(ext) -j 24bpp_filename 8bpp_filename 32bpp_filename

ext must be one of png, tga, tif, bmp, or ico

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