Re: [dwm] xicon - dzen-like tool for icons

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 06:29:18 +0200
pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com> wrote:

> Documentation:
>
> Images are composed by '.' and 'X' or '0' and '1' in ascii one row
> per line file:
>
> $ cat x
> .... .... .... ....
> .... .... .... ....
> ..XX .... .... XX..
> ...X X... ...X X...
> .... XX.. ..XX ....
> .... .XX. .XX. ....
> .... ..XX XX.. ....
> .... ..XX XX.. ....
> .... .XX. .XX. ....
> .... XX.. ..XX ....
> ...X X... ...X X...
> ..XX .... .... XX..
> .... .... .... ....
>
> This image should be converted into a oneline format. This is one bit
> per pixel in hexadecimal. So 8 bytes per line:
>
> $ ./icon < x
> 0000 0000 300c 1818 0c30 0660 03c0 03c0 0660 0c30 1818 300c 0000

Why, o why, inventing yet another image format. What's wrong with X11's
(de facto) native pixmap format, XPM (_X_ Pixmap)? There are already a
sea of tools to handle it, it's an ASCII format and is simple enough
too. X11 even comes with a library for easy usage of the format.

http://koala.ilog.fr/lehors/xpm.html

An example:

/* XPM */
static char * roundb_xpm[] = {
/* width height ncolors cpp [x_hot y_hot] */
"13 13 5 2 7 7",
/* colors */
" s none m none c none",
". s topShadowColor m white c lightblue",
"X s iconColor1 m black c black",
"o s bottomShadowColor m black c #646464646464",
"O s selectColor m white c red",
/* pixels */
" ",
" . . . ",
" . . X X X o o ",
" . X X X X X X X o ",
" . X X X X X X X o ",
" . X X X X O X X X X o ",
" . X X X O O O X X X o ",
" . X X X X O X X X X o ",
" . X X X X X X X o ",
" . X X X X X X X o ",
" o o X X X o o ",
" o o o ",
" "
};

Greetings,
Denis
Received on Sun Jul 01 2007 - 11:49:53 UTC