RE: Re: [vox-tech] reading bitmaps in XLib

2003-10-19 Thread Julie Russell
Hi there, I don't want to use SDL because my application needs to be a split screen with one portion of it using xine to display movies, and the other being drawable text or pictures. Xine wants to be full screen and SDL wants to be full screen. Seeing using xine is not negotiable, and xine sits

Re: [vox-tech] reading bitmaps in XLib

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:21:39PM +1000, Julie Russell wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to display a bitmap(.bmp) on the screen using xlib. I am using XReadBitmapFile to load the bitmap but it is giving me a BitmapFileInvalid on return. As someone else mentioned Xlib's idea of a bitmap is

RE: Re: [vox-tech] reading bitmaps in XLib

2003-10-17 Thread Julie Russell
Hi again, I am writing an application in C++ using Xine, XLib and the common C++ library which is just a C++ wrapper for threads. I am trying to keep it as simple as possible, and not mix too many languages. I actually want to display a jpeg on an X window, so I thought if I could display a

Re: Re: [vox-tech] reading bitmaps in XLib

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:20:06PM +1000, Julie Russell wrote: Hi again, I am writing an application in C++ using Xine, XLib and the common C++ library which is just a C++ wrapper for threads. I am trying to keep it as simple as possible, and not mix too many languages. I actually want to

Re: [vox-tech] reading bitmaps in XLib

2003-10-16 Thread Mitch Patenaude
The function XReadBitmapFile() almost certainly reads X bitmap files (.xbm).. which are different than Windows bitmap files (.bmp). I don't know precisely how to read windows bitmaps, but I think that the GD image library is a good place to start looking. -- Mitch On Thursday, Oct 16,