The OS does not support bitmap families with only DENSITY 2 bitmaps in it.
There is no difference from the OS standpoint between a single bitmap or a
family with one bitmap only. Actually the OS always uses families.

Aaron gave you the trick to generate them though.

FYI: There are still some bugs in PilRC bitmap generation. Renaud is going
to send a fix to Aaron soon. It is related to v3 bitmaps (with density)
especially in 16 bpp.

Cordially,
Regis.

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-----Original Message-----
From: r. zane rutledge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:51 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: PILRC 2.9 BitmapFamilyEx Density 2


Regarding the latest pilrc 2.9p5...

Been going through the paces with high-density bitmaps, but after
exchanging emails with some folks at Palm I don't understand some
limitations regarding double-density bitmaps created with the latest
pilrc2.9.

Why must the "DENSITY 2" flag only apply to members of a "family"? Why
not just add a density flag to any BITMAP or BITMAPCOLOR or anything
else? Why can you "not have only bmp with DENSITY 2 in BitmapFamilyEx."?
(As far as I can tell, this isn't a limitation inherent in new bitmaps.
Why couldn't you have a resource that was ONLY a double-density bitmap?)

While it often makes perfect sense to have a family, where the OS will
simply choose the correct high-density bitmap, I find in practice that
the 64K limit to the total "family" size often keeps this from being
practical. In which case, you'll have to add the high-density version to
a separate resource, and in the current form, you'll thus need a "dummy"
density 1 bitmap to fulfill the current requirement.

I see this as a limitation. It might simply be an early pass at revising
pilrc, but I for one could really use the ability to make a
double-density resource as a standalone.

Comments/rebuttal welcome.

Thanks,
zane
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r. zane rutledge - http://www.rzanerutledge.com/palm/

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