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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: color raster file as root in X11?
Message-ID: <1989Dec12.034931.4152@world.std.com>
Date: 12 Dec 89 03:49:31 GMT
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rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (R.L.Hesketh) writes:
>In article <7304@cs.yale.edu> spolsky-joel@CS.Yale.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>>Is there any way to use a color rasterfile as the root in X11R3? (I'm
>>on a sparcstation with an 8bit color monitor).
>Use "xloadimage" by Jim Frost (madd@std.com).  It was posted to comp.sources.x
>not so long ago and works very well.

If you're putting color images on the root window with xloadimage,
watch for patch 03 which should be out Real Soon Now.  I modified the
color allocation scheme to avoid private colors for many cases, which
really helps when loading images onto the root.  I recognized the
private colormap cell allocation as a deficiency but was working on an
intelligent way to do shareable color allocations without loosing the
flexibility that I got from the private colors.

The new patch will also fix a good many bugs (I sucked the source
through Saber C and was disgusted with myself) and will work on a
wider range of displays than it did under patchlevel 02.

Watch for a real announcement here in a few days.  Until then, thanks
for the support that everyone has given me.

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com