On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jo Dillon wrote:
> Stefan Taferner (taferner@salzburg.co.at) spake thusly:
> > > A facility for importing bitmap files from a paint tool - they'd need
> > >   to be 1bpp bitmaps, both of the same size, and it means some fiddling is
> > >   required to for the user to create them
> > 
> > Allow to load pixmaps. They can have a shape.
> > Require that they only have two colors plus the shape (color "None").
> > Or dither them if they have more colors... ;-)
> 
>   Hmm. You mean bitmap files which have a mask? That might confuse
> users who don't understand masks/try to save images in formats (like gif)
> that don't know what a mask is. And obviously a bitmap without a mask
> is going to make a pretty strange cursor.

I've meant XPM -- X Pixmap Files. The file format that our icons are.
Some versions of Gif also have a mask bit, btw.

In fact you can read any file format that has a mask and two extra colors.
Aren't there PNG versions that have a mask too?

--Stefan