Re: XPM support for NSImage

[Hubert Chan]

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:28:09 -0500, Adrian Robert <address@hidden> said:

>> It depends on libXpm, which is included in X11, or available from
>> http://koala.ilog.fr/lehors/xpm.html.  I'm not using any of the
>> X11-specific functions from that library.

> This may bother some people, especially those trying to deploy on
> Windows.  There is an alternative you might consider, which is to use
> code included in GNU Emacs (image.c) for XPM support (originally
> written for the Mac Carbon port by Yamamoto Mitsuharu).  See http://
> lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-04/msg00780.html

Actually, libXpm has Windows support too, so it shouldn't be a problem
on that platform.

Honestly, though, the XPM format frightens me, and I'd rather use the
library written by the people who created the format, and if necessary
rip out the X11-specific bits.  (No offense meant to YAMAMOTO
Mitsuharu; I'm sure the patch that he wrote is good.)

libXpm also provides functions for writing XPM files, if I ever want to
add that as well.

Thanks for the link, though.  It's nice to see that someone was
courageous enough to write an XPM parser.

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