Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Small patch :o)

[Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:54:09PM +0100, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 1999, Daniel Sjolie wrote:

> > [IMO we should have gotten rid of libxpm long ago. The graphics should
> > be drawn in 24bit, and then quantized runtime, if the client is
> > displayed
> > on a pseudocolor display.

> Yes and no.  To be able to do that quantization you have to load the 24bit
> gfx anyway and that uses up precious memory space if you happen to be
> running freeciv on an old X-Terminal.  Or something like that.

I've been using Imlib for a program of my own on an Xterm hanging off 
an aged HP workstation with several other users.  It does struggle
somewhat, but the workload is much heavier than that FreeCiv would
probably impose - rendering new 400x400 images as fast as possible,
rather than rearranging a fixed set of tiles relatively infrequently.

Imlib itself is not  much hassle to install, particularly if you don't
need to install JPEG, GIF or TIFF support.  Pretty much a standard GNU
package.  There are autoconf macros provided for detecting it.

As ever, YMMV.

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