OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Applications
PMView - converting ICO to OS/2 BMP...background options?
Neil Waldhauer:
I'm also using that version of Visual SlickEdit. I didn't really think about customizing it. I'd be interested to hear more about how you enhance SlickEdit for OS/2
Andi B.:
One of the first things I did when I started using SlickEdit more than a decade ago, was disabling the toolbar. For my way of working these icons only wastes screen space which is better used for code ;-)
Andreas Schnellbacher:
Note that also Knut still has these VSlick kbuild macros online. (In the absence of that editor, I had installed that on an NT 4 version and it had worked. Don't remember what it does, but at least there were menu enhancements. Check the sources yourself.)
Dave Yeo:
Where to download Slickedit? Their site doesn't list the old OS/2 version and Hobbes just has an update to 4.0b.
Alex Taylor:
--- Quote from: Dariusz Piatkowski on January 06, 2021, 03:48:13 am ---I need to take a couple of ICO (icon) files and convert them to an OS/2 BMP format. Seems easy enough, right?
Well, my problem is that doing the conversion does not preserve the ICON's background transparency...why not?
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That's because unlike ICO, the BMP format doesn't support transparency.
--- Quote ---So if transparent BMP is off the table, what's the easiest way for me to apply a particular colour as background to an ICO file so it's still preserved in the BMP image itself?
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Sure. Open the Icon Editor, choose File -> New and select the Bitmap format, with a size identical to the icon you want. Then open the icon in another instance of Icon Editor, use the fill tool to fill in the background colour you want, and then choose Edit -> Select All and Edit -> Copy, then paste it into the instance which has the bitmap open. Then save the bitmap.
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