Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #27630] Black fairy pieces partly transparent

[Eric Mullins]

anonymous wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #4, bug #27630 (project xboard):
>
> Perhaps in the future we should distribute the source with WinBoard bitmap
> files only, and decide with an option on the conversion program if the user
> wants to make transparent or opaque pixmaps for the black XBoard pieces.
>   

That's another alternative to providing both bitmap sets.  Again, there 
must be an easy way of doing this.  For that matter, it is possible to 
perform the conversion at runtime.  I think I know how to do that on 
windows anyway.  Doing that might require changes to the source bitmaps 
first though.  I'll postpone thinking about the implementation until we 
discuss this more.  But I like the idea of selecting at runtime which 
representation to use.