Thx for the answer Mohamed.
Well lemme explain this to you briefly again.....
I have a map here displaying a certain sales territory of the company I work for. This territory contains 8 different outlet types. Each Outlet type is symbolized by a different pushpin colour. O fcourse, there are about thousands outlets in each of one of the 8 diffrent outlet types....I imported the data from microsoft access........the data is sorted by street adress and postecode.....and shown by outlet type. In conclusion I have 8 different pushpins (--> Map Type: Multiple Pushpins)...each pushpin colour representing one of the eight outlet types...........and morethen 15 thousands different outlands located in that map.I haven`t arranged each outlet type by a set of pushpins, because that would mean too many queries in microsoft acces, which is too complicated for the simple purpose of the map.
Now all I want is to be able to make one of the 8 different pushpin types invisible........by reducing the range from 8 to 1 I`d be able to display all pushpins as invisible, provided that I am able to make the pushpin ranged 1 invisible......
Got me now?
Next point: I`m still not quite sure about how to deal with the editor..I use paint as editor here...........ok lets say I`d like to make all red pushpins in my map transparent......that means that pixel 0,0 has to be red as well....I save it as bmp and import it as custom symbol when right clicking on the red pushpin on the legend and clicking on 'import custom symbol'..........
Thats where I am so far.......the problems start to appear when it comes to changing the color of hat 0,0 pixel.....it always black, even though I selected red in as colour in the paint editor..........
Hope you can aunderstand me in a better way now..thx....