xlib transparent icons

I've been trying to set a window's icon from an array of ARGB quads. So
far, I've come up with the following, which creates an image, draws it
to a pixmap and then assigns the pixmap to be the window's icon:

x_image = XCreateImage(g_display, CopyFromParent, 24,
ZPixmap, 0, bytes, 16, 16, 32, 0);
icon_pixmap = XCreatePixmap(g_display, sw->wnd, 16, 16, 24);
XPutImage(g_display, icon_pixmap, g_gc, x_image, 0, 0, 0, 0, 16, 16);

win_hints = XAllocWMHints();
win_hints->flags = IconPixmapHint;
win_hints->icon_pixmap = icon_pixmap;
XSetWMHints(g_display, sw->wnd, win_hints);

That works (though it's probably not the most elegant way of doing
things and it's hard-coded to only work for a 16x16 image), but I've run
into a block with transparency. I can't figure out how to set pixels to
be transparent - they're just coming up black. I've tried using
XAllocNamedColor() and friends to get a blank or transparent colour and
then manually draw that over the right pixels in x_image with
XPutPixel(), but didn't have any luck. How would I go about setting
certain pixels in the pixmap to be transparent?

Cheers,

John.
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