Transparent Image problem in WPS

[digerati1338]

I'm working on porting a WPS theme to the Sansa e200 since it will hopefully have sound soon.  My problem is that I can't get a transparent bitmap to work properly.  I set the area I want transparent to 255,0,255 in the GIMP and then save it as a Windows bitmap.  In the WPS, it shows the pink color instead of transparency.  It isn't anti-aliasing because there is pink everywhere, not just around the edges.

[JustJohnny]

If the image used is being set as the background image, (using the %X tag in the wps), then the color will show as pink. There is no transparency color for background images.

If the graphic isn't being used as the background image, I'm not sure what the problem is.

[Yotto]

Assuming it's not a background image, upload it somewhere and post a link here.  I'll be offline a lot of tomorrow but when I get back I'll be happy to take a look at it.

[digerati1338]

Here are the images I'm having problems with:


I'm not using any as a background.  

I'm not sure what the problem is.  Maybe it is a problem with the simulator I am using.  I will experiment some more.

[RotAtoR]

Looking at those images, you do have problems with anti-aliasing *and* none of them even have the color 255,0,255 in them. They are as close as 246,1,255, but not exact.

Edit: The fact that they've been converted to jpg further messes them up and makes it hard to tell exactly what's wrong. Do you happen to have to original bmps?

[digerati1338]

Apparently photobucket converts bmp to jpg on upload.  I didn't even realize that.  Here are the bmps:
http://www.comteche.com/free-image-hosting/viewimage.php?file=/free-image-hosting/images/9vl56413.bmp
http://www.comteche.com/free-image-hosting/viewimage.php?file=/free-image-hosting/images/OjI56472.bmp[
I don't see any point in uploading all of them, so i only included 2.

[RotAtoR]

The background color is a bit off (246,0,255), so that's what's wrong.

[digerati1338]

I thought that was probably the problem.  Any suggestions for fixing it?  Is there a setting in the Gimp that I could change, or a different bitmap editing program (preferably open source) that I could use?

[Yotto]

In Gimp, double click your foreground color in the little toolbar thingy where you select your brushes, and you can key in FF00FF as the color.  Then either paint that color everywhere you want it, or use the "fill" tool to fill it in.

[David Marsh]

Also in GIMP you can press ctrl+P (shortcut for Dialogues->Palettes) to bring up the list of palettes, and select the default palette which has the correct magenta colour.  You cant get it wrong, its the only one that looks that colour.

[digerati1338]

I've identified the problem.  In the GIMP I was setting the foreground to FF00FF (255, 0, 255) and filling.  I did this again just like I had done before, but this time I checked the color with the color picker after filling it.  The color picker returned 246, 0, 255.  It is missing some red.  I tried several times with the same result.  Maybe it is just my version of the GIMP.  I dont have the latest build.  I'll try getting a new version and see if that fixes the problem.  

Thanks for all your help.  I'm open to other suggestions as well.

[Yotto]

I've seen this before.  Make sure the "mode" is "normal" and up your threshold a bit, try different values up to maybe 50 or so.  Too high and you'll start filling in your black, too low and you won't get all the "almost magenta"

Or just use the pen tool to draw the magenta.  The pictures aren't *that* big.