Help with icon transparency

[Jason_AZ]

I'm having trouble making with icon transparency. From reading the forums and looking at examples of other icons, Tom tom interprets pure red (255,0,0) in RGB speak as transparent. I made a simple icon with MS Paint. I used Adobe Photoshop to verify that the red is indeed 255,0,0. After that I named the file to match one of my custom POI categories to try it. I uploaded it to the Tom tom and turned on the POI category to show on the map. The red which I expected to be transparent still shows up on the Tom tom screen. I've attached the icon. All the included icons work fine.

I have a 720 running app 7.221 (8572/040301)
(aside: I haven't upgraded because I keep hearing about choppy speech and other bugs with V.8)

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

 

[Ernie S.]

Use your photoshop to remove the red and leave the background transparent. Save it as a .gif file and replace Friends and Family.bmp with Friends and Family.gif. TT will read gif's and they're a good deal smaller than BMP's