[comp.sys.mac.comm] need to display bitmapped images while using a comm program

halam2@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (Haseen I. Alam) (06/16/90)

 
 Let me explain what I'm looking for.  I wrote some image processing programs
 in C on a BSD 4.2 Unix machine.  The program wroks fine on a Sun 3 as well.
 On the Sun I wrote a small module to display these images, I link this with 
 the rest of my program via make.  I have one call that specifies the X and Y
 dimensions, and I open up a window of that size.  Then I have another call
 which puts a specified grey-level value at a given x-y location.  I can use
 this same procedure to turn a pixel on and off.

 Now the only problem is, at home and at work I have Macs, and I am still
 reading about mac-programming.  I am using MacLayers, and everytime I type 
 "layers" it pops up a new window.  So I think it should not be too difficult
 to write a little module in C to do the above.  Not much error checking is
 required.  I take care of them in my actual program.  This can be really
 helpful to me and anyone else who use a mainframe more than a text editor.
 Also it will make a comm program much much prefferable to any existing one.

 If I am lead in the right direction and with some small/psedo examples then
 I might be able to take a shot at this myself.  Or does anyone know of any
 product that will do this.  I am not trying to display RLE graphics.
 Reading in raster/gif/array or any other format has already been beaten to
 death, I can handle that.  I just need to put pixels at specified locations
 while the actual picture is on a Unix host.

 Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

 Haseen.