Hiya Lecrayon....I've also tried to use TGA's for the MDI buttons, with no success. I haven't tried using them for the startpanel. If your getting black, with both transparent and translucent checked, then I'd say that it isn't supported.

o yea, and any background elements cant be translucent, only transparent (you cant make window borders translucent, onto desktop, you cant make startpanel background translucent and c ur desktop thorugh it, etc.) the mroe programs arow should be able to be a tga, mouseovers form menu items can be tga, logoff and shutdown button elements can be tga, separators can be tga... thats about it for the startpanel. for everything else u need to use a bmp, with transparent pink. (and the more programs menu has to be rectangular )

and for midi buttons, i usually jsut copy the toolbar underneath and paste it under the button for a psuedotransparency

Oh Fuzzy..thanks for deleting all my questions and putting them in answer nr 5. I just wanted some help from people that know better than me, now all the other questions will probably be unread.
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Good one CerebroJD
Thanks Halluci, I guess it's the best workaround. But what do you do with the titlebar buttons when your topframe is set to stretch
I guess it's back to the magic pink.

Also, using the textbackground with magic pink somehow displays the pink colour

Yeah, found the trick, had to set textback active AND inactive to 254.

yep, makes sense But it is a compromise... Especially when you work with images rather than "design".

Translucency dosnt work on start menu backgrounds.Transparency only.(same with window frames).Translucency does work on just about any button.