Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > 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. > > > - Does someone know of a nice downloadable collection of standard glyphs > > (Bitmaps for Open file, New file, Save file, ...) with a free license? > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/icon-collection/ > > Neil
However, if you want to use Tkinter you should be aware that Tkinter only supports xbm-Bitmaps and gif-Images out of the box. You can use the python imaging library to add support for other image formats but I think that PIL just does an on the fly format conversion into gif for you, so you might experience a quality loss if you use for example png icons, so you are probably better off looking for a collection of gifs. Best regards Michael -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
