j2me transparent image drawing problem

[dorukdestan]

Hello;

I am using low level API and drawing a transparent image on the screen. First I create the image with the following code:

    	int [] c = new int[width*height];
    	
		for (int i = 0; i < c.length; i++) {
			c[i] = 0x88000000; 
		}
		Image img = Image.createRGBImage(c, width, height, true);

then I draw it in the Canvas' paint(Graphics g) method by calling:

g.drawImage(img , 0, 0, Graphics.TOP|Graphics.LEFT);

it works fine and appears transparent on Sun Java Wireless Toolkit emulator but it is not transparent on Nokia SDK3 Symbian 0.8 emulator and on Nokia E61 device(real device).

Any advice to fix this problem?

Thanks

Destan

[mattbrenner]

Hi,

I draw transparent images regularly without any problems. May I suggest that you first create a transparent image (using whichever image processing software you like), store it in .png file and ask your program to display it. If you the image displays correctly then you will know that problem is not with the phone (or its firmware), and the problem must be in your software.

[grahamhughes]

Some Nokia S60s have problems with getRGB() losing the alpha channel, and perhaps some also have a problem with createRGBImage() in the same way.

At Matt says, PNGs with alpha will paint much more reliably. It looks like you want to paint an alpha-black rectangle. I suggest using a small square PNG, using setClip() and drawImage() to tile the small image over the required area.

Graham.