backColor of image

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 6:12 AM -0800 11/13/02, paolo mazza wrote:
>on MouseUp
>  set the backgroundcolor of image "image1" to 0,0,0
>end MouseUp
>
>This button change the BackColor property of "image1" but the image does not
>change at all. Why?
>An image has a backcolor or not?

>From the docs for backgroundColor:

"The backgroundColor of an image is the second color in the image's color
palette."

(In general, it's not very useful to set the colors of an image. If you
want a changeable background color, it's probably simplest to put a graphic
behind it, so the graphic shows through the transparent pixels of the
image, and set the graphic's backgroundColor instead.)

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