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Re: graphics of crossfire.




 Yes, I was thinking of using the XPM library.

 I have not looked into its facilities.

 If the new pixmap method was adopted, then the following things
could happen:

 1) True multi color images
 2) Have masks so you can see other objects below the top one.

 The disadvantage may be speed.  I don't know how much slower color
pixmaps are compared to normal pixmaps.  Could probably write a simple
program to find out.

 The biggest problem is the conversion of the old to new.  I believe there
is a mechanism in XPM on how to display color pixmaps on bw systems (ie,
what pixels have white value and which have black.)  If this is true,
and the performance is comparable to the present bitmaps, once the conversion
is finished, you could just get rid of the bitmaps..

   Mark Wedel
master@rahul.net