On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 13:44 -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > "Mark A. Nicolosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That makes perfect sense, thanks. Yeah, converting to an xpm does work. > > Just out of curiosity why is the file closed and reopened if it isn't an > > xpm? Couldn't that buffer be reused when testing if it's a png? > > Respond to the list please.
Sorry, didn't realize the mailing list sets the reply-to to that person. Sorry to Mikhael, too. > The file is opened and closed by the respective libraries. > > Fvwm just passes the filename to libxpm, then libxpm opens and reads > the file. If that fails, Fvwm then passes the file to libpng. > > The only exception is when the file has an extension, then it passes > the file to the corresponding library first, if that fails, it tries the > other libraries. > > In no case does Fvwm read the file and buffer it anywhere. Okay, maybe when I get some time, I'll download cvs and check it out. -- Mark A. Nicolosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
