Transparent Bitmaps?

[AceInfinity]

It's incredibly frustrating making a transparent bitmap, I know how to create it with changing it to a 256 color table bitmap, and I don't ever go with 24 bit output, but for some reason it seems that I still always either get transparency on parts of the image that I don't want, even though the indexed color is nowhere near the color of any other pixel in the image itself. Not to mention that the indexed color itself still seems to show up in the image!

Why does it not want to work for me? I'm trying to create a bitmap for the logo which will go in the Office ribbon button inside my new C++ application, but it's starting to annoy me now. I've saved around 10 different versions of the image that I want transparent, but still something wrong with all of them.

Anyone know a trick to getting good transparent bmp's?

Edit: I'll show you what I mean...


Indexed color at 0x0 is that pink color i've set to make sure that it's not part of the actual logo's colors that I want.

[Peter L]

Wait, why exactly don't you just save it as a 256 color table bitmap?

[AceInfinity]

Wait, why exactly don't you just save it as a 256 color table bitmap?

I did that, an indexed 256 bitmap, but it's still giving me transparency problems.

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I tried again, but still...