On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:00:57 GMT, Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wim Goffin:
But just to make sure I'm on the right track,
- Is XBM the best way to for bitmaps? The ones I saw so far are all black
and white. Do they also exist in color?
XPM is the version of XBM with colour.
- Is XBM also the best format for glyphs on the Windows platform? Or would
'Images' of a different format be nicer?
It depends on what you want to do with icons. Do you want users to be
able to change icons? It is less likely Windows users will have tools
for manipulating XPM files. The only feature that you are likely to want
that is not available from XPM is multi-level transparency which is
available from PNG files.
My generic advice without additional details of your project is that
PNG is the best format for icons displayed by your code. Icons used by
the operating system such as for applications should be in a format
supported by that OS: Windows prefers ICO files.
XPM, PNG and ICO files are not natively supported by tk/Tkinter. The only
natively supported format is GIF, apparently mainly for historical reasons.
There are tcl/tk extensions allowing to handle other image formats, but they
may be weird to use from Tkinter (never tried them). If you want a portable
application or if you just don't want to bother, you'd better use either XBM or
GIF files for images.
HTH
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