There is rev 1.6 you can find with PalmOS 4.0 SDK
Jon C. Zaring
"Richard M. Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:41860@palm-dev-forum...
>
> Ok, so I've made an "App Icon Family" and set the size to 22x22. Now I
add
> a family member. I set the color depth to 16, set the bitmap ID, and hit
> "Create". Why is the newly created bitmap set to 256-color & 16x16 size?
I
> didn't just add a bitmap resource (where defaulting is understandable), I
> created a member bitmap for my bitmap family and all the characteristics
> were set up at the family level! Why isn't the "Create" button smart
enough
> to use those properties?
>
> A second issue: if you paste a higher-color image into a bitmap w/
> properties set lower (e.g. paste an 8-bit bitmap into a 16-bit bitmap
> resource) constructor will silently promote the resource properties to
8-bit
> rather than reduce the color depth of the pasted image. Worse, if you go
to
> the menu and re-select 4-bit color, the menu obligingly puts the checkmark
> back in front of the 4-bit item ... but nothing is _actually_ done to the
> image. If you close it and reopen it you will find that it is still
> actually 8-bit. Apparently you have to select "recolor with current
> palette" to get the darned thing to believe that you really want to reduce
> the color depth.
>
> There are just so many extra unnecessary steps required when using this
tool
> ... I shouldn't have to explicitly resize & re-depth each bitmap when it's
> been created from a family item that has had the information set. I
should
> not have to re-depth the bitmap if I (intentionally, or worse
accidentally)
> paste a higher-depth image into it. And I _really_ shouldn't have to do
two
> different things to reduce the color depth once it -has- been increased
> (without my knowledge). It's like having to say "I want you to do this"
> followed by "no, I really mean it".
>
> All of the above with Constructor v1.5b7. I believe that this is still
the
> latest version?
>
> Is there any possibility that this tool could be made a bit more
intelligent
> about understanding what the user wants to do?
>
> --
> -Richard M. Hartman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
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