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- Subject: Do it with PPaint (was: Images for Gadgets from DPaintIV ?)
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 96 14:38:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <68650024@0humpty.tomate.tng.oche.de>
- From: humpty@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE (Andreas Mixich)
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- jgrimm@sdd.hp.com wrote about "Re: Images for Gadgets from DPaintIV ?" on
- "08-Jan-1996 18:13:21 [S+0]" at zer.COMP.SYS.AMIGA.PROGRAMMER:
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-
- > Rob Hounsell <hounsell@bnr.ca> wrote:
- >
- > > According to my Intuition programming manual, generating an image for a
- > >gadget requires some tedious creation of the image structure. Is there any
- > >way
- > >I can convert a brush generated by DPaintIV into the required image format?
- >
- > Standard Answer #3: "It depends." :-)
- >
- > A real kludge this, but it works for certain applications: fire up
- > IconEdit (yup, IconEdit). Doesn't matter what icon you have loaded. Now,
- > import an IFF brush into it (you knew you could do this, right?). Then,
- > from the FILE menu, select "SAVE AS C SOURCE" (I think that's the text,
- > but at least you know where and what sorta to look for).
- >
- > Caveats: if the size constraints and color constraings and depth
- > constraints etc are not matching with your needs, this is useless. But
- > for small little brushes, it works pretty well, with slight modifications
- > here and there. It at least spares you a lot of the grunt work.
-
- He should have a look at PPaint 6.4. It can save any image data in C source
- code as well. So the size limits are gone. I think Iconian (the latest)
- does this too. But than there could be a limit.
-
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