On 11:19 17 Mar 2003, Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> wrote: | (moved to fvwm-workers) | On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:04:25PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > It's long bugged me that my AspectPixmap menu backdrops don't always fit | > the menu; indeed, they rarely fit perfectly. Now, I know the image itself | > cannot always fit, but I expected tiling after the scaling. Instead I | > see patches from previous menu backdrops (I switch menu backdrop images | > every so often). | > [...] /* Draws a colorset background into the specified rectangle in the target | > * drawable. */ [...] | > can someone | > who understands the colorset code tell me why a menu background is simply | > drawn once onto the area instead of being set as the XWindow's background | > pixmap, which would then be tiled nicely but the X server? | > | > Such an arrangement would let one use AspectPixmap to get the image | > roughly right and then have the X server hide the edges with more | > backdrop. | > | > Failing this, shouldn't FVWM be blacking out (or something - maybe | > the background-colour value if present in the Style) the whole menu | > backdrop first? | | THere is a bug in the aspect stretching code. If the pixmap is | wider than it is tall, it is stretched to fit the target | rectangle's height, and if it is taller than it is wide it is | stretched to match the target width. For example, if the pixmap | and has this format: | [... taller-than-wide rectangle ...] | And the menu this: | [... even taller rectangle ...] | The pixmap only occupies the upper part of the menu.
Mine is in the middle, not the top, but no matter. This is not the bug. AspectPixmap is required to preserve the image aspect ratio, and therefore cannot fit the menu all the time, and indeed will rarely be a perfect fit. The bug is that portion of the menu not fit by the pixmap is old historic pixmap data. I thin it should either be some background colour or a tiled copy of the AspectPixmap. It also doesn't really address the question of why the pixmap is drawn onto the menu instead of being set as the XWindow's background. I'm curious about the reason for this choice. It seems to me that putting it as the background would get you tiling for free. | I think we | a "TiledAspectPixmap" option too. It's not in the 2.5.6 FvwmTheme manual entry. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ In the unlikely event of losing Pascal's Wager, I intend to saunter in to Judgement Day with a bookshelf full of grievances, a flaming sword of my own devising, and a serious attitude problem. - Rick Moen -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
