Corruption of desktop icon by webstart

Hi. I've specified a 32x32 .gif icon (tried with .jpg as well, same result) as the icon property in my .jnlp file. When webstart installs the application I'm working on, the 16x16 icon in the start menu seems to install fine, whereas the 32x32 icon which is installed on the desktop has randomly scattered pixels which are transparent, allowing the background colour to be displayed. The version of webstart I am using is
1.0.1_01, which is I think shipped by default with jre 1.4.0 beta 3.
Has anyone else experienced this behaviour?
Jeremy

As far as i remember, winxx auto display the color present from the top left pixel as a transparent color.
This is a windows feature and has nothing to do with java and/or jws ...

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Last edited by ninian (2009-01-21 09:35:05)

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http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … stcount=42 =>
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