1. Re Win32Lib and Bitmaps
- Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Nov 17, 1998
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Ralf wrote: >Interestingly, Im not trying to annoy, David, im trying to make a point. No offense taken. >If you would use Neil for dos32lib, it would create a compatible palette >without any effort from you. Actually, I'd written the code for my XPM (X Pixmap) reader a while back; I just didn't bother to include it. I'm just suprised that the *Win32* code doesn't do it automatically. I guess I'll have to dig into the book again. I'm under the impression that Neil & Co. are aimed at the SVGA crowd, while Dos32Lib targets VGA (mainly mode 18). I'm a bit leery about using SVGA when it tends to choke up half the machines I use - because vendors are too lazy to create SVGA drivers for DOS, relying on Win32 to supply the drivers instead. But I am trying to keep my options open by limiting the graphic calls to a small part of the code - the renderXXXX routines. That way, if I decide to change to another library (to run under Linux, for example), it shouldn't be that hard to port the code. As a side note, one of the (minor) reasons I dropped the Java Look and Feel is that it required redefining several of the default palette colors. Give the already constrained VGA palette, I wasn't that comfortable with sacrificing those many colors. -- David Cuny