[plt-scheme] bitmaps, buttons, transparency

At Sun, 18 May 2003 11:22:58 -0500 (CDT), Ed Cavazos wrote:
> I've got some xpm bitmaps that I'm using as the label for some
> buttons. When I view these bitmaps in image viewers, they appear to
> have transparent backgrounds. When I stick them in a button, those
> areas appear black.
> 
> Does anyone have some example code they can share for how to get the
> button background to be the same as (get-panel-background) ?

There are two problems:

 * MrEd doesn't currently recognize transparency when loading XPM
   files. (It just uses whatever color is associated with the
   transparent index.)

 * button% doesn't currently recognize transparency in bitmap labels.

Both are things we'd like to fix, but neither fix is likely to happen
soon.

Matthew