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-<TITLE>FAQ XPM</TITLE>
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-<body>
-<h1 align="center">The XPM<br>
-Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
-<p>
-This article contains the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions about the
-XPM format and/or library. If you don't find the answer to your problem here,
-then you can mail either to lehors@sophia.inria.fr or to the mailing list
-xpm-talk@sophia.inria.fr.
-
-
-<h2>Contents</h2>
-
-<ol>
-<li><a href="#Q1">How do I convert my images to or from XPM ?</a>
-<li><a href="#Q2">Why are my XPM files said to be invalid ?</a>
-<li><a href="#Q3">Why does my program core dumps using XPM ?</a>
-<li><a href="#Q4">Why does my program core dumps using XPM with a widget ?</a>
-<li><a href="#Q5">How can I get a non rectangular icon using XPM ?</a>
-<li><a href="#Q6">What exactly triggers the creation of a mask when using XPM ?</a>
-<li><a href="#Q7">How should I use the mask ?</a>
-<li><a href="#Q8">Is there a string to pixmap converter somewhere ?</a>
-<li><a href="#Q9">How can I edit XPM icons ?</a>
-<li><a href="#Q10">Is there a collection of icons somewhere ?</a>
-<li><a href="#Q11">The documentation fails to print out. Why ?</a>
-<li><a href="#copy">Copyright</a>
-</ol>
-
-
-<h2><a name="Q1">1. How do I convert my images to or from XPM ?</a></h2>
-<p>
- Netpbm is surely the best image conversion package that I know of. It defines
- formats for color, gray and monochrome images and provides a set of filters.
- Thus a GIF image can be converted to XPM with something like:
-<p>
- $ giftoppm youricon.gif | ppmtoxpm > youricon.xpm
-<p>
- The latest release can be found at least from wuarchive.wustl.edu
- (128.252.135.4), directory /graphics/graphics/packages/NetPBM
-
-
-<h2><a name="Q2">2. Why are my XPM files said to be invalid ?</a></h2>
-<p>
- There are three official versions of the XPM format. The XPM library since
- version 3.3 can read all them but writes out only XPM 3. Also the small
- program called sxpm which is part of the XPM library package can be used to
- automatically translate XPM 1 and 2 files to XPM 3 with a command such as:
-<p>
- $ sxpm -nod yourxpm1or2file -o yourxpm3file
-<p>
- Also, the XPM format defines "None" to be the color name meaning
- "transparent", but IXI used to hack the XPM library in its early days to
- handle transparency as "#Transparent". This makes IXI format not compatible
- with the official XPM format, and so not readable neither by the official XPM
- library nor any of the programs built on top of it.
-<p>
- The only solutions are either to stick on IXI programs which can deal with
- their format or convert your files to the standard XPM format. This can be
- done simply by changing "#Transparent" to "None".
-
-
-<h2><a name="Q3">3. Why does my program core dumps using XPM ?</a></h2>
-<p>
- Be sure the XpmAttributes structure you pass by reference has a valid
- valuemask. You can give NULL instead if you don't want to use an
- XpmAttributes but if you do, you MUST initialize its valuemask component to
- some valid value, at least 0, otherwise unpredictable errors can occur.
-<p>
- So instead of doing something like:
-<pre>
- XpmAttributes attrib;
-
- XpmReadFileToPixmap(dpy, d, filename, &amp;pixmap, &amp;mask, &amp;attrib);
-</pre>
-<p>
- you should do:
-<pre>
- XpmAttributes attrib;
-
- attrib.valuemask = 0;
- XpmReadFileToPixmap(dpy, d, filename, &amp;pixmap, &amp;mask, &amp;attrib);
-</pre>
-
-
-<h2><a name="Q4">4. Why does my program core dumps using XPM with a widget ?</a></h2>
-<ul>
-<li>First the XPM library is Xlib level, so don't pass your widget as a
- Drawable parameter. A Drawable is either a Window or a Pixmap. The widget's
- window can do the job but:
-
-<li>Then a widget only gets a Window when realized, so passing XtWindow(widget)
- with a not yet realized widget is wrong. Either realize you widget first or
- use another window. Since the Drawable parameter is only used to specify
- the screen to which the pixmap must be created on, most of the time the
- default root window is just fine.
-</ul>
-
-
-<h2><a name="Q5">5. How can I get a non rectangular icon using XPM ?</a></h2>
-<p>
- The X Window System does not support transparent color. However there are
- several ways you can use to get the same visual effect using XPM:
-<ul>
-<li>First you can use the None color to get a shape mask and use it as
- explained below (question 7).
-
-<li>Second you can define a symbolic color name such as "mask" in the XPM
- format file, then use the color overriding mechanism to set this symbolic
- color to the color of the underlying object. Note that in this case the XPM
- library won't create a shape mask, and that if the color of the underlying
- object is changed then you'll have to create a new pixmap.
-</ul>
-
-
-<h2><a name="Q6">6. What exactly triggers the creation of a mask when using XPM ?</a></h2>
-<p>
- Basically a mask is created if "None" is used as one of the color of the
- pixmap. Be aware that this is not only true if it is used in the XPM of the
- pixmap since the colors can be overridden at load time. So a mask is created
- if the "None" color is used at load time, coming either from the XPM
- definition or the color overriding.
-
-
-<h2><a name="Q7">7. How should I use the mask ?</a></h2>
-<p>
- There are basically two ways of using the mask:
-<ul>
-<li>Use the mask as a shapemask with the X11 Nonrectangular Saphe Window
- Extension. Typically this is what should be done when the icon is used in a
- desktop.
-
-<li>Use the mask as a clipmask in the GC you pass to XCopyArea when drawing the
- pixmap. So the "transparent" pixels being not actually drawn will get the
- underlying pixels colors.
-</ul>
-
-
-<h2><a name="Q8">8. Is there a string to pixmap converter for Motif ?</a></h2>
-<p>
- Yes, Motif 2.0 or later does support XPM pixmaps as well as XBM bitmaps.
-
-
-<h2><a name="Q9">9. How can I edit XPM icons ?</a></h2>
-<p>
- As listed below several editors either commercial or not are supporting the
- XPM format. However, pixmap is the one I would recommend since it is freely
- available and, being fully dedicated to XPM, it allows to edit all the
- special things, such as the symbolic color names, which makes XPM different
- from all the other image formats. Pixmap can always be found by ftp from
- ftp.x.org (contrib) and avahi.inria.fr (pub/pixmap).
-<p>
-Last Update: 3 August 1994
-<table border=1>
-<caption>XPM Icon Editors</caption>
-<tr><th>Program<th>Infos<th>Source/Author<th>Platforms<th>SA<th>XPM<th>cost
-<tr><td>pixmap<td><ul>
- <li><a href="ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/application/pixmap/pixmap2.6.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/application/pixmap/pixmap2.6.tar.gz</a>
- <li>requires 3.4 or higher revision of Xpm lib.
- <li>supports all XPM format features
- <li>current version doesn't work on 24-plane displays
-</ul>
-<td>Lionel Mallet<td>source<td>yes<td>3<td>NC
-
-<tr><td>pixt<td><ul>
- <li><a href="ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/pixt.tar.Z">ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/pixt.tar.Z</a>
- <li>doesn't work on 24-plane displays
- <li>last updated November 1991
-</ul>
-<td>J. Michael Flanery<td>source<td>yes<td>1<td>NC
-
-<tr><td>pixed<td><ul>
- <li>part of X.desktop
- <li>current version doesn't work on 24-plane displays
-</ul>
-<td>IXI<td>Many UNIX<td>no<td>3<td>N/A
-
-<tr><td>olpixmap<td><ul>
- <li>packaged with the OLIT (OpenLook) toolkit
-</ul>
-<td>USL<td>Sun, SVR4.2, UnixWare<td>no<td>1<td>N/A
-
-<tr><td>xfedor<td><ul>
- <li>only uses XLIB
- <li>doesn't work on 24-plane displays
-</ul>
-<td>Daniel Dardailler<td>source<td>yes<td>3<td>NC
-
-<tr><td>SCOpaint<td><ul>
- <li>included with the ODT package
-</ul>
-<td>SCO/Wing Eng<td>ODT<td>yes<td>2.8<td>N/A
-
-<tr><td>pme.icn<td><ul>
- <li>written in the Icon language
-</ul>
-<td>Icon Project<td>source<td>yes<td>3<td>NC
-
-<tr><td>PixEditT<td><ul>
- <li>there is currently no support for editing the colormap
-</ul>
-<td>Free Widget Foundation<td>source<td>yes<td>3<td>NC
-
-<tr><td>xscribble<td><ul>
- <li>requires the FWF, 8-bit pseudocolor
- <li><a href="ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/thoth">ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/thoth</a>
- <li>Alpha version (last updated April 1993)
-</ul>
-<td>Robert Forsman<td>source<td>yes<td>?<td>NC
-
-<tr><td>vueicon<td><ul>
- <li>included with Vue3.0
-</ul>
-<td>Hewlett-Packard<td>HP<td>yes<td>3<td>N/A
-
-<tr><td>iconedit V3<td>&nbsp;<td>SunSoft<td>Sparc/Sun3<td>yes<td>2<td>N/A
-
-<tr><td>Pixmap Editor<td><ul>
- <li>this is a Widget, not a complete program
-</ul>
-<td>ICS<td>?<td>yes<td>?<td>?
-
-<tr><td>ezX<td>&nbsp;<td>Sunrise Softwarey<td>?<td>?<td>?<td>N/A
-
-<tr><td>XPaint<td><ul>
- <li>full featured, works on all displays
- <li>current release is 2.1.1 (last update January 1994)
-</ul>
-<td>David Koblas<td>source<td>yes<td>3<td>NC
-
-<tr><td>Phoenix<td><ul>
- <li>full featured, 24-bit painting program, requires Motif.
- <li><a href="ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/graphics/packages/phoenix">ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/graphics/packages/phoenix</a>
- <li>Beta version (last updated September 1993)
-</ul>
-<td>ohtcolor@niksula.hut.fi<td>source<td>yes<td>3<td>NC
-
-<tr><td>pixed<td><ul>
- <li>pixed is part of the TeleUSE UIMS
- <li>More info is available from service@ignite.alsys.com
-</ul>
-<td>Alsys<td>Many UNIX<td>yes<td>3<td>N/A
-
-<tr><td>display<td><ul>
- <li><a href="ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/application/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-3.2.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/application/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-3.2.tar.gz</a>
- <li>lots of image conversion and manipulation features
-</ul>
-<td>John Cristy<td>source<td>yes<td>3<td>NC
-</table>
-
-<p>
-SA - Stand Alone program<br>
-NC - No Charge (i.e. free); most programs are copyrighted.<br>
-XPM - XPM format supported<br>
-source - built from source code; likely works on all standard X platforms<br>
-N/A - icon editor is normally distributed with other software
-
-<p>
-Send updates, additions, corrections, etc. to <a
-href="mailto:dan@bristol.com">dan@bristol.com</a>
-
-
-<h2><a name="Q10">10. Is there a collection of icons somewhere ?</a></h2>
-<p>
- At least there is one freely available: Anthony's X Icon Library. You can
- found it on several ftp servers, such as <a href="ftp://server.berkeley.edu/pub/AIcons">server.berkeley.edu/pub/AIcons</a>. It
- contains only small icons (less than about 100x100 pixels in size) which are
- stored in groups in a logical way. Color icons are stored in XPM format and
- Black & White icons in XBM.
-
-
-<h2><a name="Q11">11. The documentation fails to print out. Why ?</a></h2>
-<p>
- The PostScript documentation file is formatted for US letter paper. Frame
- Maker tries very hard to ensure that you have the right paper and punts if
- you don't. However, you can easily work around this problem by applying the
- following patch. If for some reason applying the patch fails, you can still
- do it by hand. Just locate the corresponding block in the PS file and remove
- the lines with a leading '-' character.
- By the way, this applies to any doc generated by Frame Maker. The
- corresponding block might be slightly different depending on which version of
- Frame Maker was used, but it is still easy to locate.
-
-<pre>
-*** xpm.PS Wed Sep 11 15:47:43 1996
---- xpm-A4.PS Thu Nov 21 09:27:28 1996
-***************
-*** 647,668 ****
- 0 ne /edown exch def
- /yscale exch def
- /xscale exch def
-- FMLevel1 {
-- manualfeed {setmanualfeed} if
-- /FMdicttop countdictstack 1 add def
-- /FMoptop count def
-- setpapername
-- manualfeed {true} {papersize} ifelse
-- {manualpapersize} {false} ifelse
-- {desperatepapersize} {false} ifelse
-- { (Can't select requested paper size for Frame print job!) FMFAILURE } if
-- count -1 FMoptop {pop pop} for
-- countdictstack -1 FMdicttop {pop end} for
-- }
-- {{1 dict dup /PageSize [paperwidth paperheight]put setpagedevice}stopped
-- { (Can't select requested paper size for Frame print job!) FMFAILURE } if
-- {1 dict dup /ManualFeed manualfeed put setpagedevice } stopped pop }
-- ifelse
-
- FMPColor {
- currentcolorscreen
---- 647,652 ----
-</pre>
-
-
-<hr>
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