I just got my new Pronto yesterday, and I love it! As I'm trying to create my setup, I seem to be having a problem with creating BMPs with the correct palette. I've read some of the past postings on the subject, but still no luck.

Here's what's happening. I've downloaded a gif with a channel logo. In MS Photo Editor, I converted it to a 8-bit monochrome BMP. Then, I brought it into MS Paint for some tweaking. Everything looks great. Then I load the bmp into ProntoEdit and it looks great in the properties window. When I OK the changes, the button is blank ( featureless single color ). What's happening?

Thanks for the help!

Several things are possible.

You are loading the bitmap as an "Active Icon", but haven't assigned any function to the button. The Pronto will treat it as an "Inactive" button, and display the appropriate icon - but since you haven't assigned one it just uses the background color.

Or, you are loading the bitmap as an "Inactive Icon", but *have* assigned a signal. Same cause and consequence as above. Or, you are loading the bitmap only as "Selected" and not "Unselected".

Solution for all of the above is to ensure every button has an action (delay, signal, alias, etc.) and/or load the appropriate bitmap in all four locations. At a minimum you must load the bitmap twice under "Active Icon" for Selected and Unselected.

That was it. I thought that by having selected and unselected was enough, but I never even thought about active and inactive.

Thanks for the quick response!

To follow up, do you have to create four different icons (active/selected, active/deselected, inactive/selected, and inactive/deselected), or will ProntoEdit create the other three for you if you create the first one? If the former, does anyone have any tips for creating the other three once you've created one?

If you *want* to you could create four different icons, but there's no reason to (and ProntoEdit won't do it automatically). The "Inactive" pair of icons is completely useless if you're using ProntoEdit since they're used only in blank templates ie. if you do all your programming on the Pronto itself.

At most you'd only need to create "selected" (button is being pushed) and "unselected (what it will normally look like). For my Pronto I just have one icon for both states and I merely change the text color.