Re: Displaying .bmp bitmaps

Hans Peter (h.p.verne@kjemi.uio.no)
Wed, 16 Apr 1997 00:31:44 +0200

To subscribers of the xforms list from Hans Peter <h.p.verne@kjemi.uio.no> :

> 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?

You can convert it and display it at as a pixmap. I believe xpm
is not the format of choice for large images, but I have have used
pixmaps of 320x200 with no hassle.

ie, something like:

img_pxm = fl_add_pixmap(FL_NORMAL_PIXMAP,dx,dy,320,200,"My image:");
fl_set_pixmap_data(img_pxm, MyPixmap);

> If it's possible, do anybody knows where I can find some pieces of code
> to do that?

try http://www.uio.no/~hpv/xew.html

Regards

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Dept. of Chemistry, University of Oslo.         Fax:   (+47) 22 85 54 41

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