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From: jimf@SABER.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How to copy from depth 1 to depth n
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Date: 25 Jul 90 22:00:34 GMT
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|I'm a little stuck.  I can create a pixmap from a bitmap file
|with XReadBitmapData.  Great.  Now what do I do to create
|a pixmap with the same depth as my display but with the same
|bitmap data?  What I don't want to do (and the only alternative I 
|see) is to do a XGetImage and XGetPixel along with a separate
|XCreatePixmap (right depth).  Will someone please tell me
|I'm wrong (but be right about it OK? :) .

XCopyPlane will work fine and you can even recolor the foreground and
background while you're at it.

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com