[TYPO3-english] GIFBUILDER and transparent background

[Stephan Petzl]

JoH asenau schrieb:
>> anyone knows why it is not possible to generate GMENU Items with clean
>> transparent background? i mean png supports transparency values- so
>> why are they not used? it looks like gif....
>> Or am i wrong?
> 
> GIFBUILDER currently can't handle Alpha-Channels/32bit PNG
> So usually you should render the background and the text together, which can
> give you quite good results.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Joey
> 

problem is that the background color has to be switchable in the 
frontend- without page reload.

would be a great improvement IMO to have this feature. not the first 
time i need it...

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Best Regards
Stephan Petzl