bouguett@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Athman Bouguettaya) (06/11/90)
This question might have been asked before but I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out how I could use a pixmap directly to set for instance the background of a window. I copied the gif file from an ftp site. I then used giftoxwud to get an x dump. I then used the xwudtoppm to get a pixmap. One more thing, The X manuals I have do not have anything about reading a Pixmap. Thank you in advance for your help. -Athman
kucharsk@number6.Solbourne.COM (William Kucharski) (06/11/90)
In article <22090@boulder.Colorado.EDU> bouguett@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Athman Bouguettaya) writes: >This question might have been asked before but I spent a fair >amount of time trying to figure out how I could use a pixmap >directly to set for instance the background of a window. I copied >the gif file from an ftp site. I then used giftoxwud to get an x >dump. I then used the xwudtoppm to get a pixmap. One more thing, >The X manuals I have do not have anything about reading a Pixmap. >Thank you in advance for your help. > >-Athman Ppm format within the pbmplus utilities is NOT an X pixmap format but a P)ortable P)ixM)ap format. You have to use some type of utility to convert data from the ppm format into an X format. Unfortunately there is no current standard X pixmap file format, but I believe there is work going on to create one. -- =============================================================================== | Internet: kucharsk@Solbourne.COM | William Kucharski | | uucp: ...!{boulder,sun,uunet}!stan!kucharsk | Solbourne Computer, Inc. | = The opinions above are mine alone and NOT those of Solbourne Computer, Inc. =