Hello Martin, >> I'm using the icons that came with the rar file and they're perfect. See >> attached. > > Strange - yes I see, they are perfect - perfectly displayed here > with IrfanView.
My "background processor" has been thinking about this problem since you brought it up yesterday and I think I now understand what is happening. 1.- When I replied to your first message yesterday I (unintentionally) lied to you. First I understood that you were referring to _all_ icons and second I just took a quick look at my toolbar and I thought mine were "perfect". 2.- Taking a more detailed look yesterday after our PM exchange and the other messages posted in this thread, I realised that I was seeing your same problem (the 'stairway effect' which you called 'bad resolution') with only 3 icons: Address Book, Print and Delete, which were actually the ones you had included in your attached PNG. 3.- If you take a look at the other icons, mainly those in main toolbar, all or mostly all have borders that are at 0, 90 or 45 degrees. With these inclinations they can be easily drawn as a straight line of pixels. But if you look at the AB, Print and Delete buttons, where most borders don't have these inclinations, you see this effect that I call "stairway effect". 4.- But, how come some people see them all perfect? This "big question" was answered, at least for my case, just a while ago. I remembered about the ClearType technology developed by Microsoft for improving font display (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/WhatIsClearType.mspx) and then is when I realised that there is a difference, a big difference, if you display the icons in an LCD monitor or a normal analogue one. In my case, icons show perfect on an analogue monitor but show the stairway effect on my big LCD one. There may also be a difference depending on screen sizes and the resolution being used, but I haven't checked this. 5.- Finally, yesterday I was trying to somewhat correlate the problem to whether Windows XP or Windows 2000 was being used. It looked like, but I did not fully verify this, that those using XP did not see the problem. I am not at all familiar with XP and I don't have any system with XP so I can't verify this. But, if those using XP _and_ an LCD monitor see all the icons just fine, it may be (and this is just a guess) that XP is using for graphics display some kind of technology similar to the ClearType one for fonts. That is all I can think of. I will now turn my "background processor" off for a while ;-) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v3.0.9.5 Return (pre-beta) on Windows 2000 5.0 Service Pack 4 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.0.9.5 Return | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
