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User picture enhancements in iChat AV
Authored by: boboxox on Jul 09, '03 04:26:41PM

Does anyone know how to set a picture and maintain its alpha channels? I've been looking inside iChat contents (in the library and app) and found that the .Mac and AIM general icons are TIFFs with alpha/transparency. However if you import an identical file into the custom icons, it doesn't apply the trasnparency. Anyone know how to work around this?



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User picture enhancements in iChat AV
Authored by: Werd on Jul 09, '03 08:05:48PM
Interestingly, the old version of iChat did support transparency perfectly. Since I started using iChat A/V, it acts weird. I assume it's a bug... My buddies' pictures all still have transparency, but my own shows up on a white background. Strangely, when I mouse-over my picture above my buddy list, the white vanishes and the brushed metal shows through as it should. I don't get it. As soon as I take my mouse away, it's back to white. And of course, I'm still on a white block in my actual chats. Maybe most people don't care, but since I use a background texture, it's obvious.

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