[comp.windows.x] Help with XWD file format

gary@POPEYE.SFSU.EDU (Gary Fong) (12/19/90)

Hello xperts,

RE: Questions about the XWD format.

1:  In the XWDFileHeader structure, what does the `ncolors' member represent?
    I know it says that it is the number of color structures.  Does this refer
    to the XColor structures that follow thus implying that many color as well?

2:  If the `ncolors' member doesn't represent the actual number of unique
    colors in the XWD image, how can this number be determined?

In a PBMPLUS utility, `ppmtoxwd', this member does NOT get the actual number of
colors but the number of colormap entries.  I modified `ppmtoxwd' to print out
the actual number of colors and that many XColor structures.  `xwud' and HP's
own library function `XHPFileToPixmap' (which reads a XWD file into a pixmap)
works fine but `xloadimage' doesn't.

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Thanks in advance,

Gary Fong
gary@popeye.sfsu.edu (Internet)
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San Francisco State University
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