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From: jimf@SABER.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Displaying large bitmaps properly
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Date: 5 Aug 90 14:49:11 GMT
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|I'm fairly new to X, and am wondering what is the proper way to display
|large (full page) bitmaps in a scrolled window under X.
[...]
|Does this sound like a reasonable course of action.  How would you do it?

Take a look at /contrib/xloadimage.1.06.tar.Z on expo.lcs.mit.edu,
especially the code in send.c and window.c.  It loads images onto a
pixmap and then copies to the window.  This works well on most servers
unless they have limited memory.

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com