Re: 3 minor important questions...

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

RevX gmx at writes:

> 2. Some XPM files have 6 byte color codes instead of the (normal)
> 3 byte (#RRGGBB), what do those 6 byte color codes represent/mean?

GDK uses 2 bytes per color channel internally. The GdkColor struct is
defined as

struct _GdkColor
{
  gulong  pixel;
  gushort red;
  gushort green;
  gushort blue;
};

where red, green and blue represent values in the range of 0-65535.
gdk_color_parse() hides these details from you and can parse 3 byte
as well as 6 byte color notations (and a few other formats).

> 3. Does anyone know any Windows(!) programs (freeware/shareware
> preferred) that allow to convert BMP or GIF of JPG to XPM files?

The GIMP ?! http://www.gimp.org/win32/


Salut, Sven