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diff --git a/doc/README.MSW b/doc/README.MSW new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f631525 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/README.MSW @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ + +README.MSW hedu@cul-ipn.uni-kiel.de 5/94 + + The XPM library for MS-Windows + +Motivated by the wxWindows library, which is a (freely available) toolkit +for developing multi-platform, graphical applications from the same body +of C++ code, I wanted to have XPM pixmaps for MS-windows. Instead of rewriting +a XPM-parser I managed to port the XPM-library-code to MS-windows. +Thanks to Anaud Le Hors this became a part of the official XPM-library. + +Until now it's only used together with wxWindows. And even there it's more +a kind of beta. But it should be possible to run it as a simple libxpm.a +without wxWindows. + +The key is a transformation of some X types plus some basic X functions. +There is not yet a special MSW-API, so you should know the X types used. + +The following is done in simx.h: + +typedef HDC Display; +typedef COLORREF Pixel; + +typedef struct { + Pixel pixel; + BYTE red, green, blue; +} XColor; + +typedef struct { + HBITMAP bitmap; + unsigned int width; + unsigned int height; + unsigned int depth; +} XImage; + +With these defines and the according functions from simx.c you can call +XPM-functions the way it's done under X windows. It can look like this: + + ErrorStatus=XpmCreateImageFromData(&dc, data, + &ximage,(XImage **)NULL, &xpmAttr); + ms_bitmap = ximage->bitmap; + // releases the malloc,but do not destroy the bitmap + XImageFree(ximage); + +Supported functions are the Xpm*Image* but not the Xpm*Pixmap*. + +DRAWBACKS: +The main drawback is the missing support for Colormaps! There was nothing for +it in wxWindows, so I did not know how to deal with Colormaps. + +The size of the pixmaps is bounded by malloc() (width*height*2 < 64K). + +Close colors do not look that close. But that seems to be the window system. + +Neither a special API for MSW nor a special MSW documentation other than this. +(I can only point you to wxxpm as an example , see below.) + +INSTALLATION: +There is not yet a makefile with it. Simply take all the *.c files +into your project except the files related to Pixmap operations: *P*.c. +!!!You MUST set FOR_MSW on the preprocessor options!!! +(You might uncomment NEED_STRCASECMP in xpm.h if it's in your lib) +This should compile into libxpm.a. Good luck... + +FTP: +wxWindows is currently available from the Artificial Intelligence +Applications Institute (University of Edinburgh) by anonymous FTP. + skye.aiai.ed.ac.uk pub/wxwin/ +or read http://burray.aiai.ed.ac.uk/aiai/aiai.html + +wxxpm, XPM support for wxWindows, the latest version is available at + yoda.cul-ipn.uni-kiel.de pub/wxxpm/ + and maybe in the contrib or tools of wxWindows + +Please contact me if you have suggestions, comments or problems! + +================================================================ +Some fixes and comments by Jan Wielemaker (jan@swi.psy.uva.nl), +Oct 24, 1996: + + * Please try not to disturb me on this, XPM is not my + piece of cake. + + * Hermann Dunkel has appearently moved in virtual space. + +Changes: + + * I've used the xpm package under NT 4.0 and MSVC++ 4.2. + + * I've made a big performance improvement in + ParseAndPutPixels(), fixed creation of the mask in + SetColor() in create.c. I looked into XCreateImage() + in simx.c, but commented out my improvement for reasons + you'll find there. If you know what is going on, statement + (1) does not apply to you. + +Comments on installation: + + * Donot include the to/from pixmap files into the project. + These are the ones containing a capital P somewhere in their + name. You can also first include all, and then remove all + the files you get errors on :-) + + * The DC that is requested should be a valid memory DC, thus + CreateCompatibleDC(NULL) provides a good generic one, but + GetDC(NULL) doesn't! This costed me some time. + + * The real difficulty is using the mask, mostly due to the + bad documentation. If 95 or NT is your target, use: + + MaskBlt(context.hdc, // Destination DC + x, y, w, h, // Destination area + mhdc, // Memory DC with the image selected + sx, sy, // Source X,Y + msk, // HBITMAP of the mask + sx, sy, // Mask X,Y + MAKEROP4(SRCPAINT, SRCCOPY)); // The magic op code. +================================================================ + + +-- + ////|\\\\ \\\\\\ Hermann Dunkel + O O ////// IPN Uni Kiel, Germany + | \\\\\\ Tel: +49 431 / 880 3144 + \___/ ////// E-mail: hedu@cul-ipn.uni-kiel.de + \_/ \\\\\\ X.400 : c=de;a=d400;p=uni-kiel;ou=nw-didaktik;s=dunkel + |