Re: [VANILLA-CLIENTS:216] can't edit color pixmaps

[Michael J Kellen <idsfa@excite.com>]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 07:50:27PM -0400, Buzard2245@aol.com wrote:
> Let's say the rom GA. Well, when I save the files it says on the netrek 
> window "unable to read file pixmaps/rom/GA" or something like that. What's 
> the problem?

(1) As was mentioned, check the format.  Make sure you have the same
    number of characters per line, with double quotes and commas as
    indicated.

(2) If you wanted to add colors, make sure you fixed the "number of
    colors" parameter at the head of the XPM.

    In fact, if you are going to edit by hand, you should read the XPM
    spec.  Use vi. (gvim is a nice windows port)  Better yet, use the
    Gimp.


(3) Make sure that the file is not being saved as a .TXT file

(4) I coulda sworn that those files were gzipped.  If you ungzipped
    them, you need to recompress them.  And it has to be something
    zlib can understand (ie, gzip)