--On Thursday, May 13, 2004 14:32:48 +0200 Xavier Maillard
<zedek_at_gnu-rox.org> wrote:
>
> 1) Is it more powerfull to use vector buttons instead of XPM/PNG ? I
> mean what is best not to waste cycles ?
Well, they are both powerful, I use a background pixmap with alpha blending
and vectors stacked on top to draw the button emblems. The major advantage
of vectors (imho) is that they use Colorsets, so changing a window's
colorset updates the vectors to match.
In my experience, vectors are faster than using pixmaps for buttons, but i
dont have any stats to back that up :)
>
> 2) How can I produce my own window decorations (ie. buttons) ? Is there
> any tool that can graphically show me what I am typing (what vectors
> look like) ?
It's not too hard to write them (it is difficult at first, but it gets
easier), I think theres a perl script somewhere that can convert xfig
graphics into vectors, i think it's called eps2vector.
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Received on Thu May 13 2004 - 08:09:40 BST