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From: argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: SERVER_IMAGE_BITMAP_FILE in xview 1.0.1
Keywords: xview server_images
Message-ID: <135223@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 4 May 90 18:34:40 GMT
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In article <1990May3.000908.26918@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> richard@ben.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Conan the Barbarian) writes:
> A Note: Page 298 of XView Programming Manual by Dan Heller
> refers to an attribute of SERVER_IMAGE called
> SERVER_IMAGE_BITMAP_FILE. It is referenced again on page 431. 
> The attr does not exist in xview 1.0.1
That's odd -- it was there in version 1.0.  I may be wrong, maybe someone
from sun can verify this.

> The middle third of the page
> is fantasy. However, if you have the source for xview
> you can modify load_icon_mpr (the old sunview icon stuff)
> to load icon edit files into a short array suitable
> for SERVER_IMAGE_BITS.  For some strange reason, the old
> icon_load routines are still laying around even though
> xview supposedly uses a different method for creating icons
> (server_images).

Great pains are taken to make XView backwards compatible with Sunview.
Some advice: don't use compatibility routines or attributes.
You're not guaranteed to have them in the future.
--
dan
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