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At 27 NOV 2001 11:16:37AM Colin Rule wrote:

OpenInsight Specific

We used to display a flashy bitmap in place of OILOGON.BMP, but now we use a VB launcher to execute OINSIGHT.EXE.

I want to turn off the logon banner and have specified this in the Application Properties… but it still appears.

To work around this I have replaced OILOGON.BMP with a small 1 pixel white bmp, which is very small at 66 bytes.

This is something I could live with, ie a small dot appearing for a few seconds, but is there any way I can really turn it off?

Thanks

Colin

At 27 NOV 2001 02:34PM Don Miller - C3 Inc. wrote:

Why not use a transparent bitmap .. very small. I don't think you can avoid the logo, but that would make it invisible.

Don

At 27 NOV 2001 05:35PM Donald Bakke wrote:

Don,

How would one create a transparent bitmap? I didn't think the .BMP format supported such a beast. Even if it did, I don't think OI will correctly display the transparency since it can't do it for .GIF files.

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

At 28 NOV 2001 09:25AM Don Miller - C3 Inc. wrote:

Don .. do you want me to send you a file "TRANSPARENT.BMP" that I use in my OI app? It seems to work just fine for me.

Don

At 28 NOV 2001 11:06AM Oystein Reigem wrote:

Me too please.

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At 28 NOV 2001 11:08AM Colin Rule wrote:

Me too please…

Colin

rulec@cssp.co.uk

At 28 NOV 2001 11:33AM Oystein Reigem wrote:

Colin,

Earlier we have had to reduce our 16.7M colour bitmaps to 256 colours to get a satisfactory result. (At least I did; I think I adviced you to do so too.) And now we want 0 colours? What next?

- Oystein -

At 28 NOV 2001 12:40PM Donald Bakke wrote:

Don,

Yes please.

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

At 28 NOV 2001 12:42PM Don Miller - C3 Inc. wrote:

Oystein .. et al. Try using write-only-memory …

Don

At 28 NOV 2001 02:18PM Donald Bakke wrote:

Hi Don,

I received the file. Isn't this the same one that comes with OI?

Anyway, this is not a truly transparent .BMP. It's a monochrome image with a single white pixel. When I use this as my logon banner I can see the white pixel (surrounded by a black outline that OI adds.) When I add it to a form it appears white.

Your instructions in the email explained how to use it for making pushbuttons. That may work well and good, but the .BMP isn't helpful for Colin's issue. I thought you said that you were able to use this .BMP successfully has a logon banner. Can you confirm this?

Thanks,

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

At 28 NOV 2001 04:41PM Oystein Reigem wrote:

Don,

You're right! That's like less than zero!

- Oystein -

PS. Can you get me -256 megs of the stuff?

At 28 NOV 2001 04:44PM Oystein Reigem wrote:

Don B,

Don M forgot to mention this secret ingredient that's necessary for it to work.

- Oystein -

At 28 NOV 2001 09:14PM Don Miller - C3 Inc. wrote:

Oysten .. Sure .. turn the friggin thing off. Call on your wireless and complain. I'm at a loss for words .. but that's not uncommon.

Don

At 28 NOV 2001 09:17PM Don Miller - C3 Inc. wrote:

No I didn't .. just add a kettle full of crappy Norweigan fish. That will make anything work. I wish I knew how to insert some neat flashy files here to make your heart pound but .. html in this board fukks me up (edited out?)

Don