Giving up for now

[Joel Holdsworth]

On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 20:38 +0200, Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Joel Holdsworth
> <joel at airwebreathe.org.uk> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've hit a bit of a wall with alpha blended icons. CreateIcon is working
> > fine for icon creation, but ExtractIcon and LoadIconFromResource etc.
> > are all proving more of a problem. All of these use various GDI DIB
> > functions to coerce the icon bitmap to the correct colour depth and
> > size. The problem is that preserving the alpha channel through these DIB
> > functions seems to be impossible because they go via X11, so until the
> > dib engine is merged (after hell freezes over) I'm not sure I can go
> > much further.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> If you say X11 might be problematic note that more and more display
> drivers are offering visuals with alpha, so 32-bit ones instead of
> 24-bit. You could force the selection of such a visual in winex11.drv
> for testing.
> 
> Roderick

Is that right? I simply assumed it would screw it up. If the problem can
be solved with fixes to user32 or gdi32, then I can probably find the
solution. If it involves work on winex11, then I'm not really the right
guy for the job.