Inv Item different on Gui than in Rooms and on Cursor

[Ghostlady]

I have an inventory item that is placed in a room and it looks fine.  When it goes into the inventory, the item now has white edges.  If I select the item from inventory and hold it on the cursor, the white edges disappear.  I am a little confused over why this is happening and how it can be fixed.  See sample.  The top fishbowl is in the inventory gui.  The bottom fishbowl is on the cursor.

[LimpingFish]

It has something to do with alpha-blending (the smoothing of a sprite's edges based on it's transparent property) not being supported when used with inventory/gui sprites.

I think. Not sure whether it has been addressed in the latest versions of AGS.

[Shockbolt]

I had the same problem with my Inv items when the edges weren't "clean" or sharp if You want.
It didn't help in any way, no matter what color I chose to set as transparent color.
After a few trial and errors, I found a way for it to work close to how I wanted my Inv items to appear, without the white/artifacts around their edges.

What I did was creating a dark border around the Inv item sprites and that fixed it for my game.

[Ghostlady]

Thanks for that, I'll try it.