From: "Aaron Ardiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: displaying 4 bit depth bitmap
> CW right? dont they provide a mechanism to create a bitmap of depth 4
> only? PilRC allows this.. with the BITMAPGREY16 tag! surely, it exists
> inside constructor..
In CW, you can create a 4-bit bitmap, or you can create a bitmap family with
only one 4-bit bitmap in it.
To create the 4-bit bitmap:
1. Open constructor.
2. Create a new bitmap.
3. Open the bitmap editor.
4. Look at the Colors menu and you will see B+W (1-bit), 4 grays (2-bit), 16
grays (4-bit), and 256 colors (8-bit).
[Note to Windows users: Constructor tries to behave like a Mac program so
the menu changes with each sub-window you have open, thus making it harder
to find things you are looking for. If it helps, think of Constructor as an
MDI application and pretend that the various sub-windows are owned by a
container window (even though they aren't and it isn't).]
5. Select 4-bit, then paste in your bitmap and save it.
BTW, when using bitmap families, I have found it much easier to:
1. Create the Bitmap Family.
2. Create each family item you want.
3. For each family item:
a) assign a bitmap id.
b) click the Create button.
c) paste in the bitmap.
Creating each of the bitmaps separately and then associating the bitmap ids
in the bitmap family with the appropriate bitmap appears at first to require
the same amount of work but, in my experience, is more time consuming.
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