On 19:50 17 Dec 2002, Ben Winslow <rain_at_bluecherry.net> wrote:
| Cameron Simpson wrote:
| > On 12:19 17 Dec 2002, Ben Sferrazza <bsferraz_at_lsil.com> wrote:
| > | I've previously written about this problem, but I have yet to solve it.
| > | I cannot get FVWM to properly display XPM pixmaps at their original
| > | color depth (they appear to be at most 8-bit). [...snip...]
| >
| > There are XPMs with more than 8-bit colour?
| > I'm not trying to discard your actual problem, but the above is news to me.
|
| Almost all XPMs specify 24 bit color (#rrggbb), and it seems that the
| version of libxpm that I have installed (XFree 4.2) has no problem
| parsing 48 bit color (#rrrrggggbbbb) either.
That's colour precision, not colour map size.
| If you're talking about
| the number of distinct colors in an xpm file, xpm allows for more than
| one character as a color specifier (e.g.: "m+ c #327E58".)
| I threw a small example at
http://themuffin.net/wastesedge_32x32.xpm
| (since I don't want to send a 6kb attachment to everyone on the list ;)
This example file seems to contain only 244 colours.
[...digs around...] Found the XPM spec. Seems to have no colour table size
limit. I withdraw my ignorant assertion.
Cheers,
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Received on Tue Dec 17 2002 - 20:07:22 GMT