All my screenshots have Black as transparency...

[RGBreality]

Hey, folks!

I am using The Big Box object to take screenshots of the Desktop before a screensaver launches. (I can't use the "Grab desktop at start" option, as I am also allowing the end user to use a Background Gradient object to display a gradient in the screensaver, which doesn't work well if the background is pre-set.)

All of the screenshots that MMF takes (regardless of which object is used to take them) uses the color Black as a transparency. How do I set it up so that no color is a transparency when any screenshot is captured?

Thank you for your help (yet again!)


Most appreciatively...

RGBreality

[Yves]

Screenshots are simple bitmaps, they have no transparent color, so probably the issue you get happens when you import the image. If you use an active object or a picture object to load the screenshot, just turn off its "transparent" property.

Note: if you use the HWA version you might have to choose a never-used color like magenta as transparent color (either in the Load Frame function of the active object or in the properties of the picture object), as the opaque mode doesn't work in HWA I think - I don't remember very well though.