harmon@odin.icd.ab.com (Larry D. Harmon) (07/26/90)
I need some help in converting some grey scale pictures to Windows 3.0 wallpaper. I have built a digitizer which will digitize photographs in 8 bit gray scale and wrote a program in Microsoft C to display them to a VGA 640 x 480 16 shade display. I would love to use some of these pictures as wallpaper. Is the spec for bmps available or prehaps a program that will save the current screen as a bmp? Thanks in advance Larry Harmon
shap@bunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro) (07/27/90)
In article <1569@abvax.UUCP> harmon@odin.icd.ab.com (Larry D. Harmon) writes:
] Is the spec for bmps available or prehaps a program that will
] save the current screen as a bmp?
There are lots of programs that will save the current VGA image to a
.PCX file. FRIEZE from the PC Paintbrush package is the one I use.
Then, use the PAINT program that comes with WIN3 to read it in as .PCX
and write it out as .BMP.
Alternatively, the format for .pcx is published and available from Z-Soft,
who make PBRUSH for microsoft. If you want, drop me some e-mail and I will
send that in return.
The grey scale is a twist -- unless you are running windows with the video
card in grey scale mode all the time, the best you can hope for is b/w with
the dots spaced so as to approximate grey scale. This may not be true of certain Super VGA cards.
Anyway, good luck -- and maybe you wouldn't mind sharing your wallpaper with
the net??
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{decvax,yale,philabs,oliveb}!bunker!shapbud@cimage.com (Bud Howard/1000000) (07/28/90)
Since we are on the subject of images, does anyone know the format that Microsoft keeps their .lgo files in. I would like to know so I can place my own logo on the startup screen. bud