On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 20:13 +0200, Philippe Lhoste wrote: > Iago Rubio wrote: > > I've put some xpms and png icons for testing purposes on a box on my > > home network, accessible through https://iagorubio.net/scintilla/icons - > > as only ssl access is allowed, and this box is attached to a DSL line, > > expect it to be quite slow. > > Very nice, even in the low sizes.
Thanks :) > > The pngs are just models to be later converted to xpm. > > Same for me. > > > I do the > > conversion with The Gimp, but usually require further tweaking of the > > resulting xpms. > > NB: I use XnView to convert to XPM. Thanks for the hint. I didn't know XnView. ITOH once you are used to build icons with the crapy VS icon editor, any tool is charming :) > I haven't thought of The Gimp, althought I started to use for some Web > graphics and like it, once I get used to some strange workflow. Yes, Gimp have a huge learning curve, but once you get your hands on it, you're caught. Gimp is really powerfull and the only caveat I see on it, is the non-intuitive interface. > > The xpms are not limited to 16 colors as Philippe commented. I don't not > > if it's a technical issue but I can try to convert them to 16 colors if > > needed. > > Sorry if I made think of such limitation. 16 colors is just a > self-imposed limitation, as it is mostly enough for most graphics. > My BlueGem used 64 chars/colors. It is probably close of the limit, > since we are limited to 1 character per pixel, and perhaps we shouldn't > use high Ascii chars (char code problem?). It may work, though. Hmmm ... I'm not sure all icons I posted are limited to one char per pixel. I should take a look on it ... but I fear there're some of them using two chars per pixel. > >> Here is a page showing Scintilla in PythonWin along with two more > >> recent applications, Visual Studio 2005 and NetBeans. I think > >> Scintilla is starting to look crude compared to these. > >> http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/margin.html > > > > I tried to mimic - to some extent - those icons. Of course they're > > different but I tried similar shapes. > > Of course, we could just crop from these screen captures... But that > would be less fun... Much less funny .... :) -- Iago Rubio _______________________________________________ Scintilla-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scintilla-interest
