> > would it be possible to put all xpm icons in one file in a format that
> > fvwm would find easier and faster to access, as sort of cache. this could
> > be compressed so that the icons took up less room (or are these 2 points
> > a contradiction)
>
> There already is some form of caching of pixmaps in fvwm2. See the
> routine "libs/Picture.c:CachePicture()".
>
> The XPM library allows the XPM file to be compressed. When you tell
> it the icon is "icon.xpm" it also searches for "icon.xpm.gz". The
> icon is held in memory in another format altogether.
would it be possible to store all the xpms in this memory format so that
they are simply loaded straight into the program with as little processing
as possible?
Graeme
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Received on Fri Aug 22 1997 - 09:10:56 BST