Re: Displaying .bmp bitmaps

Steve Lamont (spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu)
Tue, 15 Apr 97 09:59:59 PDT

To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> I'd like manage some images with a form, so i need to display them
> somewhere.
> Is it possible to display an bitmap image .bmp (not x11 bitmap .xbm !),
> or even .gif or .jpg, in a form created with fdesign (something like
> demo33.c), or do i have to launch an external viewer like xv ou
> ImageMagick?

This is probably the easiest way.

If this is unpalatable, look at OpenGL Canvas object. It will allow
you to use OpenGL (or Mesa if you're not on an SGI) to display images
to the Canvas.

spl

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