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My apologies if this has been asked before, but I loaded a 32-bit png which is fine. Saving using the PNG image encoder it is great to see that the alpha-channel is now preserved etc.

However, I would actually like to save the image as a 32-bit bitmap rather than the 24-bits to which Purebasic seems to default. I can do this with api without a problem, but it would of course be more convenient if PB did this natively.

Any chance of SaveImage(), when saving bitmaps, saves 32-bit images as ... 32-bit images, and all others as 24-bit etc? I realise that GDI doesn't really support 32-bit images (in that it doesn't work with the alpha channel) but I still find such images useful nevertheless. Should be a pretty painless alteration.

Thanks.

Yes, should be easy to implement. I guess it's not available now because bmp does not officialy support alpha channel. However it's easy to save it to it.