XForms: Bitmaps and Browser Storage

Robert James (james@saic.alaska.net)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:20:34 -0900 (AKST)

# To subscribers of the xforms list from Robert James <james@saic.alaska.net> :

On using a bitmap editor to alter some of your xforms bitmaps, e.g. nomail.xbm, I noticed that it was impossible to insert any extra
colors into them. Is that a built in limitation? Effectively, I think, I can
only have two colors like black and white or red and green. Am I stuck with two
colors?

Your browsers are very convenient data storage devices. In SQL when I do a
select I can fill up consecutive browsers with data, but I don't really need to
display all the browsers which I've been using to collect database data-rows. It
occurred to me that if I could hide the browsers which are collecting data which
I don't wish to display, I might be able to use them just for storage purposes
only. Trouble is it appears that hiding a browser renders the browser unusable.
Is there any way to get around this, i.e. declare a browser, somehow make it
invisible, and yet continue to be able to read data from it?

Bob James
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