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« on: 2007.10.31, 00:08:11 »
eSeaMoneky 1.5 has been rock solid for me. No problems what-so-ever.
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Liking the blackboard theme, It looks very clean, and a little retro, and I am all for that.
Do RGB icons really take that much more than 256 color icons?
Would you ever consider making a high-def and 256color distribution of your themes so people could choose?
Interesting. I was always wondering why the OS/2 icons were not high-color, I thought it was a limtation of PM or something, but if they can render RGB then there is potential for some very clean looking icons.
Do RGB icons really take that much more than 256 color icons?
Would you ever consider making a high-def and 256color distribution of your themes so people could choose?
There are some icon convertion programs available at hobbes. I developed one of them and you could convert the icons from the Win format into the OS/2 format. The advantage of the one I did was that you convert all the icons placed in a folder and the 32x32 was converted into 40x40 without scaling just filling the border with background, that way you got an icon with 16x16, 20x20, 32x32 and 40x40. It supported 24 bits format and it didn't have the problem of PMView of painting the background black. It doesn't support PNG or any new windows format though.
The other program was very good one, and you could convert windows icon libraries into the os/2 format. The sources are also available so a programmer could include support for the new windows formats.
Leonardo Pino
Rule of thumb I use in creating any controls for OS/2 is use the minimum amount of colors necessary for the desired look [most of my icons start out in 24bit and are then reduced to 8bit when I am finished working on them. I keep certain ones 24bit to use as templates to create others... for instance, when I create a folder set, I create an open folder, and a closed folder with no other graphics; then always keep that original 24bit set of files so when I create an "Assistance Center" folder (for instance), I can start with that 24bit folder, then put the question mark on it and convert THAT new set to 8bit. That means each icon has its own palette, but ends up being 8bit (or in some cases less) when completed].
I believe the limitation is dependent on the format used. I have 24bit icon files in OS/2 icon format that I use (though I wouldnt recommend it - it does use a lot more resources). In translating Windows icon files to OS/2 icon format, I've found that the programs I use (mostly PMView) do not properly read the transparency info and the transparent section is read as black and turned to black when saved in OS/2 icon format, instead of transparent)
PNG icons would be limited to the color limit supported by the format. The problem I have had with PNG icons is creating transparency regions (none of the software I work with seems to properly create PNG transparencies - or I am simply doing something wrong)... so I too am hoping David finds the time to answer your question too...
David?