In a message dated 3/21/00 12:56:27 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Mike,
>
> You need to create a file that describes the byte fields of the icon. It
is
> typically called "smallicon.r" and you just include it
> right below the resource file in your project. The five lines below is
all
> that there are in the file. This is an example of it.
>
> data 'tAIB' (1001) {
> $"0F00 0900 0200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000"
> $"7FFC 4004 5224 5574 5824 5004 5FF4 4004"
> $"7FFC"
> };
>
> The first line of eight, 16-bit hex codes is for the resource compiler and
> don't change. The last nine, 16-bit hex codes describes
> the small icon structure. The first word represents the top row of the
> small icon. The MSB of each word represents the leftmost
> bit in the row of that word going to the right. The LSB of the word is
> ignored since the small icons are only 15 bits.
>
> The bad news: I ended up drawing a grid, filling in the squares and
> calculating the hex codes myself. There may be shareware now
> out there to help you since I did this over a year ago. If not, anyone
who
> wants to write it, I'll beta yesterday.
>
> Steve
I'll bite!!! I've got a very stable icon image editor that can be extended
through DLLs to support additional file formats. I could write a "Palm Pilot
.r" file format DLL that could read and write 'tAIB' data (or any other
palm-compatible files for that matter). Let me know if anyone is interested
and I could start working on it this weekend. If someone does want this,
please send me any additional information that you might have that is not
included in this email and/or a sample file or two to test with. If you're
interested in taking a look at it, you can find it at
http://www.greatowl.com/editor/files/ice410.exe.
Thanks, -Pete
PS: You guys might be interested in this image editor anyway since it seems
to be a pretty good match for Palm development. For example:
1. It allows you to define your own image sizes (15x9, 22x22, 32x32, ...).
If you wanted to, you could redefine the set of image sizes to be only those
used by the Palm OS.
2. It allows you to convert images from one size to another. You could use
this as a shortcut when you need to create multiple icons of the same basic
image.
3. It allows you to convert images from one image depth to another.
4. It supports a lot of different file formats, including XBM, XPM (which may
be of interest to you Linux users out there), and Macintosh icons.
5. Images can have their color palettes saved to a 'palette' file. Any image
can have its color palette redefined by reading in the 'palette' file.
6. Image sizes can range from 1x1 to 400x400, so its pretty good for pretty
much any image that you intend to distribute with your Palm programs.
7. The current set of editing tools is very complete (area (cut, paste,
copy), pencil, line, brush, spray can, eraser, text, flood fill, a->b color
translation, screen capture, button maker, shadow, invert, antialiasing,
brightness & contrast,...). In addition, the tools are extensible and
'Palm-specific' tools can be added to the tool list if necessary.
PPS: Sorry to be such a capitalist and plug my own program, but I couldn't
resist when I read the part about 'there may be shareware now'.
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