[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

It doesn't matter if a button graphic is transparent gif, jpg, tif, or not. TouchBuddy and the Toolkit will aways create square buttons. If you look at my IL2 profile I don not have the button as part of the background. I have background panels, and the details of each button is in the button itself. I can then move these buttons around without having to edit the background.

If I remember correctly the only advantage to using transparent image formats for buttons was that you could share on image on several buttons letting the background show through like you are doing. But then you still have the drawback of the background containing some of each button's images.

Maybe I don't understand what you are saying totally. But the bottom line is that I have no intentions of adding 'true' transparent image support into the Toolkit because that would require a total rewrite of a large part of the code. However you can use transparent images with the Toolkit, but they will be displayed with placeholders and only be truly displayed in TouchBuddy. Rugg has made good use of this feature in his F15 profile to place clickable areas over Lockon modules. and also to add his own custom skins over some Lockon Modules to make them look like custom panels in his cockpit.

WBK