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[Solved] Magenta backgrounds to POI .bmp's?

 
Fri, 02/05/2010 - 11:01pm

What is it with the magenta backgrounds for the .bmp files? I hate it!

I've used the 255,0,255 background colors, but get the standard green backgrounds like Garmin's stuff. It makes it very hard to see.

There has to be a way to get a truly transparent .bmp. What's the solution?

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 12:33am

It works for me.

It took a while for me to get it to work for my H-D Dealers POIs. Check out this icon, renaming it to a Custom POI file you have and see if the logo shows up. If so, just open it in paint and change the pixels to be those of your POIs.
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/14533

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Sat, 02/06/2010 - 12:35am

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It's still magenta in the background... This was the bitmap that actually spurred this post, from the new HD thread.

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 12:24pm

Transparent backgrounds

This link has good info:

http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-custom-waypoint-...

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Jake88
Sat, 02/06/2010 - 6:53pm

Thanks, that did it!

The problem was, the bitmap needs to be indexed, not RGB.

I thank you for the link!

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK