Tkinter Bitmap Newbie question
klappnase
klappnase at web.de
Tue Mar 15 05:16:20 EST 2005
Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+gravity at gmail.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.1ca0cf53b7a79733989682 at news-server>...
> Wim Goffin:
>
> > But just to make sure I'm on the right track,
> > - Is XBM the best way to for bitmaps? The ones I saw so far are all black
> > and white. Do they also exist in color?
>
> XPM is the version of XBM with colour.
>
> > - Is XBM also the best format for glyphs on the Windows platform? Or would
> > 'Images' of a different format be nicer?
>
> It depends on what you want to do with icons. Do you want users to be
> able to change icons? It is less likely Windows users will have tools
> for manipulating XPM files. The only feature that you are likely to want
> that is not available from XPM is multi-level transparency which is
> available from PNG files.
>
> My generic advice without additional details of your project is that
> PNG is the best format for icons displayed by your code. Icons used by
> the operating system such as for applications should be in a format
> supported by that OS: Windows prefers ICO files.
>
> > - Does someone know of a nice downloadable collection of standard glyphs
> > (Bitmaps for Open file, New file, Save file, ...) with a free license?
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/icon-collection/
>
> Neil
However, if you want to use Tkinter you should be aware that Tkinter
only supports xbm-Bitmaps and gif-Images out of the box. You can use
the python imaging library to add support for other image formats but
I think that PIL just does an on the fly format conversion into gif
for you, so you might experience a quality loss if you use for example
png icons, so you are probably better off looking for a collection of
gifs.
Best regards
Michael
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