imagelist add masked problem

[james klutho]

I have had problems getting the IMAGELIST ADD MASKED command to work. I am using a standard 24 x 24 , 4 bit depth copy icon with a light gray background

'-----make the imagelist and add the bitmap-----------
    GRAPHIC BITMAP LOAD "copy.bmp", 24, 24 TO ghBmp
    IMAGELIST NEW ICON 24, 24, 4, 1 TO hLst
    IMAGELIST ADD MASKED hLst,ghBmp,%LTGRAY TO result

'-----show the image in the showscene routine-----------
    GRAPHIC CLEAR %RED
    GRAPHIC IMAGELIST (200,200), hLst, 1,0, %ILD_TRANSPARENT

The result is a black 24 x 24 square.

I even tried using the Windows Imagelist API with the same results. Anyone else had this problem? I am lost.

Jim

[Steve Rossell]

Take a look at this example.

[james klutho]

Thanks for your quick reply Steve. You got your reply in before I got my example attached. I see what overlays are used for now. I would like to make a suggestion that the help file explain this or maybe include your example in the help file.

Thanks again Steve.

Jim

[Steve Rossell]

I will log your requests.