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If this makes any difference, here is my updated BIOS:
Phoenix - Award WorkstationBIOS v6.00PG

Well that was no help at all. Apparently, you two have almost the exact setup.

Both of you have a Phoenix BIOS, Vista SP1, AMD Processors, and GeForce 8400 and 8500.

I believe it's either the GPUs or Vista... The only way to pinpoint would be to get a computer EITHER running Vista OR having a GeForce 8 series. Either of you have such a secondary computer? Mine are all XPs with GeForce 7 series.

And like I said, it could be a driver error, so get the latest drivers from here.

Anyway, I'm now certain that the error arises because the PNG have transparent backgrounds ... but I don't know why. Wouldn't that mean the colour UNDER the image would be visible?? Hmmmm...

I forgot to mention I did upgrade my driver and it did nothing... maybe the BIOS in the vid. card?

I only have a mac, and the computers at my dad's work are all XP so...

I do know that my grandparent's laptop is vista...

Here's another version. This one first downloads the image into the program, and then draws its Bitmap. So hopefully, it'll solve the problem as bitmaps don't really support transparency. Give it a try and tell me.

Does it work on the Mac? I'm not sure if the .NET Framework is supported by Apple...

EDIT: Sorry for the double post, Gruzzie!  

Yeah, it doesn't work on a mac. It would have to be ported (hence the objective-c discussion)
Downloading now

EDIT: I still got dots

I'm going to see if I can get people to test that version

EDIT2: Okay, I made a post at another forum (you can see it here)

What about this one? This first saves the tux as a TIFF to the hard drive, and then opens it from there. If this doesn't do it, I don't know what will!

I still got em. Maybe we should look at the build before this problem and see what we changed that could have done it?

Didn't change anything, except that the URLs are now read from an XML file.

Could you check Windows Update to see if you have the latest version of .NET installed? And other updates too, maybe?

I'm running .Net framework 3.5 (Installed on Oct. 9th)

Other than that it is just security updates, etc

GOD I FEEL LIKE A JACKASS!

It was soooo obvious! Upon close observation, I noticed that the dots are appearing only in areas that are a certain shade of Grey in colour! Well, I had set the Transparency Key to Control, which is a shade of Grey. Hence, those portions were being shown as Transparent. So, you had the holes!

I don't know why it wasn't registering on my OS version, but I am fairly confident that this should solve the problem! Try this now:

YAY! It is fixed lol

Okay, now we can move on. If only we could fix the cut off shadows on some of the tuxs, but that is the problem of the person who made it.
I'm gonna work on some buttons.

Buttons? You mean the close, next, etc. buttons? Yeah, that'd be nice... Make sure they go well with the cards!

EDIT: I think we need to design a sort of toolbar. When you click a button, it slides out of the right side. This will contain all extra options for the program; including "Download Tux", "Update", "Help", "About", "Agreement", etc.

So can anyone design it? It should basically be just like an extension to the base of the card.

I could make you something in photoshop if I have time...

Anyways, here are the buttons:

I had a real hard time getting the X to line up. Anyways, I added a background (gradient for the arrows and solid for the web and close) so we don't have the "see through" problem.

I tried one of the earlier builds in Vista and it worked fine. Haven't tried the version which caused aliasing though. I'll give that one a try as soon as I got some time for that. If we need new icons for browsing through the Tuxes etc., I can try to make them. Got some experience with interface design now.

Edit: Just seen the icons of Tanshin. Lets see how they look in the program. Then we can discuss wether they still need improvement or not. Good work Tanshin.

I read the the topic from page 3 to this one, but I still haven't quite understood what this TuxCards thing is
Is it a game? Is it something that just downloads and shows tuxes?

(Couldn't test this now as I have no intention of installing .NET Framework on my laptop.. [Will test it later on the desktop, though])

Basically the idea is that it will become something like a card game. For now, this idea is still very basic without all the features decided on at the moment.

woohaaaaa guys....
I've been out for a few weeks and you made something. Nice!
I am reading all the posts now and downloading all the stuff!
Great job!
I thought the project was dead!
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Ok
Now I downloaded the first version(beta) I didn't start
then i downloaded v 0002 i think it started and it had 3 cards in it
now I downloaded v     3 and it says that a previous version is installed and it wont start!
Can someone please explain to me what is happening!
I haven't been here for a long time!
Thanks in advanced

Before 'upgrading' to a new version, you'll have to uninstall the previous one first. Go to add/remove programs in the control panel.

You didn't have to download all versions. Just get the latest one.

Today, I'm thinking of designing the "sidebar" that will slide out if the user click a button. And I'm going to try and learn image-processing, which will (hopefully) allow me to create the code to generate the title image automatically -- so we don't have to create each one individually. It's going to be extremely complex, however -- and I can't promise it'll work. So all fingers crossed!

And I think I'll have to manually set the semi-transparent border areas (shadows, strokes, etc.) , because VC# doesn't convert them too cohesively; a lot of aliasing and mismatched colours.

Now, as far as the "game" goes, you need to explain now precisely what you mean.

I do know that you can do image processing with PHP, so maybe you could incorporate that?

Not THAT sort of image processing ... If I create the text using .NET itself, it won't look as beautiful as the original does. I want it to be exactly as it is in Photoshop. So what I'm thinking is that I create PNGs for all letters of the alphabet. Then, the program just creates the title by joining all these letters together and putting the resulting text on top of the background image.

You just read my mind, after I posted that I was thinking, "What if we made images of each letter..." not kidding

Well great minds think alike.

I see no great minds

Oh wait...

Well, it took me about 3 hours to do it, but I've finally created it!!

Just reads the name from the XML file and creates its title automatically!! Now, so far, I've only added a-z, A-Z, space, hyphen (-), and the number '2'. So these are the only ones you can use right now.

This really is great, as it not only speeds up the program by the time it would take to download the titles' images, but it also means we don't have to spend tedious hours creating their images.

I couldn't attach this here, the file size is too large.

Download: You can download it here.