how to make SVG icons transparent.

[Rajani_sp]

I have SVG icons to be displayed in listbox. They appear with black background in the list box. How can i make them transaprent. Idont have any masks for them.. Please letme know . it is very urgent..

Thanks

[symbianyucca]

basically when you make the SVG, you should define the backgrounf as transparent with the tool you are using for making SVGs. Then add them into the mif file in a way that the mask is also put into there (for exmaple with /c32,1 option), then you can load the icon & mask separately to your listboxes icon array.

[Rajani_sp]

Basically i need to have mask SVG icons also for all of my icons.
And in mk file i should be specify as /c32,1 $(ICONDIR)\arrowUpMask.svg.

I have this code for adding icons.

CFbsBitmap* arrowUpIcon = AknIconUtils::CreateIconL(KAvkonBitmapFile,EMbmOhstockclientdemoArrowup );
CleanupStack::PushL( arrowUpIcon );
CFbsBitmap* ArrowUpIconMask = NULL;
CGulIcon* ArrowUpListIcon = CGulIcon::NewL(arrowUpIcon, ArrowUpIconMask );
CleanupStack::Pop( arrowUpIcon ); // now owned by ArrowUpListIcon
CleanupStack::PushL( ArrowUpListIcon );
iconArray->AppendL( ArrowUpListIcon );

In the above code i need to call CreateIconL for mask also..
Please confirmm....

Thanks

[symbianyucca]

you would also need to actually load the mask image, by having it NULL means that it is not used at all..

[Rajani_sp]

Hi,
I included

RESOURCE :
mifconv $(ICONTARGETFILENAME) /h$(HEADERFILENAME_PRIVATE) \
/c32 $(ICONDIR)\qgn_menu_OHStockClientDemo.svg \
/c32 $(ICONDIR)\Stocks.svg \
/c32 $(ICONDIR)\Bonds.svg \
/c32 $(ICONDIR)\Currency.svg \
/c32 $(ICONDIR)\arrowup.svg \
/c32,1 $(ICONDIR)\arrowdown.svg \

In the code to add icons i changed to

AknIconUtils::CreateIconL(arrowDownIcon,ArrowDownIconMask,KAvkonBitmapFile,EMbmOhstockclientdemoArrowdown,EMbmOhstockclientdemoArrowdown_mask );

I can see EMbmOhstockclientdemoArrowdown_mask created in the mbg file. But i am not getting any icon for the list item now.
and also EMbmOhstockclientdemoArrowdown_mask appears in red colur not in blue. If the icon id is proper then it is shown in blue color right ? . i dont know what is the problem..

Thanks

[symbianyucca]

Dunno really, it should work e just fine, provided that the image has transparent section on it.