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From: west@widgit.enet.dec.com (Jim West (Stealth Contractor))
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: X window
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Date: 29 Nov 90 13:28:35 GMT
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In article <499@lovelace.albany.edu>, ccl@cs.albany.edu (Chia-Chih Li) writes...

>Hi World,
> 
>>used two Xlib routines, XReadBitmapFile and XPutImage, for the displaying 
>>inside the expose procedure. Core dump occurred in the earlier testing and now
>> I'm getting errors for XReadBitmapFile. I'm not really sured the two Xlib 

  Here is the start of the problem.  TIFF format is not Bitmap format.  A
bitmap has only a depth of 1 plane and is stored in a file in a particular
manner.

  TIFF is an image format that is foreign to the X Window environment.  What
you will need to do is write your application so that it can understand the
TIFF format and then convert to an image format the X understands.

  This is usually not trivial.  You may want to look in comp.sources.x for
several utilities, like the Portable Bitmap Plus (PBM+) utilties that can
do this for you.

					-=> Jim <=-


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