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Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: name this bitmap
Keywords: zinc, bitmap, c++
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.162547.7221@heitis1.uucp>
Date: 15 Oct 90 16:25:47 GMT
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Organization: Harmon Electronics, Inc
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In article <9010@helios.TAMU.EDU> jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley) writes:
>I just received some C++ libraries (Zinc Interface Library)
>and they give the programmer the ability to include bitmaps
>in their code pretty easily.  An example of the format follows:
>
>  unsigned short boxBitmap[]=
>  {
>      8,        // Width
>      4,        // Height
>      0xFF00,   // ********    padded to 16 bits
>      0x8100,   // *      *
>      0x8100,   // *      *
>      0xFF00    // ********
>  };
>
>Does this type of format have a name?  Does anyone recognize it

I could be mistaken, but they resemble the GET/PUT formats used by
both MSC v6.0 and TC 2.?.  I wrote a little program which created a
.H file containing a PUTable bitmap for TC several months ago, and it
output basically this format.  (Mine expanded the array a lot, and
required some special code to display the correct portion of the
bitmap array.

	brian