On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Garst R. Reese wrote:
> John Levon wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone actually use the two-colour icon feature ?
> > What's the point of it ? Surely the xpm colours are allocated
> > read-only (i.e. shared) anyway ?
> >
> > I think it should be possible anyway to use the full-colour icons as
> > two-colour
> > and with some Xpm jiggery pokery. would anyone object to doing this ?
> >
> > that way the fefefe_bw.xpm will be removed.
> >
> > I will do some testing on a mono display when I have some time. AFAICS
> > the minimal change necessary is the adding of "m" mono tags to the XPMs
> > as I mentioned
> >
> > a lot of this depends on exactly how xforms deals with xpm's
> >
> > john
> >
> > --
> > "God is in the details."
> > - Mies van der Rohe
> My bw box does not use them, but it does nice shades of grey. Be sure
> your mono display is really mono.
> Garst
>
yes, I am aware of grayscale displays... presumably xpm closeness will
match the colours to the nearest grayscale
i'm talking about monochrome==mono displays here, where the xpm colour
allocation fails (although i've not checked this out yet on the sun boxes
here)
john
--
"God is in the details."
- Mies van der Rohe
