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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Bitmap files & multiplane displays
Keywords: Pixmap, Bitmap
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Date: 3 Sep 88 03:40:22 GMT
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In article <229@stan.com> garya@stan.com (Gary Aitken) writes:
>	XCreatePixmapFromBitmapData
>will convert static data to a Pixmap suitable for use on a 
>multiplane display.
>
>However, it appears there is no way short of the client decoding
>the bitmap file itself to get a bitmap file into Pixmap format.
>Is this true, or am I missing something?

A few months ago, I proposed XReadBitmapFileData() and submitted
the (trivial) code to athena. I don't know what ever happened
to it (some recent traffic seems to indicate that something
is being decided on, but that't not clear). Being as I have
to include this routine with every awm release (awm uses it
heavily), I'm also really curious as to what is being done.

Anyone from athena care to comment? 

					Jordan