Graeme.McCaffery_at_astro.cf.ac.uk (Graeme McCaffery) writes:
> > > would it be possible to put all xpm icons in one file in a format that
> > > fvwm would find easier and faster to access, as sort of cache. this could
> > > be compressed so that the icons took up less room (or are these 2 points
> > > a contradiction)
> >
> > There already is some form of caching of pixmaps in fvwm2. See the
> > routine "libs/Picture.c:CachePicture()".
> >
> > The XPM library allows the XPM file to be compressed. When you tell
> > it the icon is "icon.xpm" it also searches for "icon.xpm.gz". The
> > icon is held in memory in another format altogether.
>
>
> would it be possible to store all the xpms in this memory format so that
> they are simply loaded straight into the program with as little processing
> as possible?
No. The formats I was referring to involve the use of pointers to
memory locations.
What is the problem you are trying to solve? I don't notice any
performance problems with XPM access. (Even on my 25mhz Sparc 1+ home
machine.)
> Graeme
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Received on Fri Aug 22 1997 - 09:43:38 BST