[Freeciv-Dev] Re: PNG loading for the Win32 client.

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Andreas Kemnade wrote:

> Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa writes:
>  > Hello,
>  > 
>  > I banged a bit in the Win32 client and converted it to load PNGs. It
>  > should read PNGs of any type. It processes them internally as 32bit DIBs
>  > regardless.
>  > To compile this you need cygwin, but you must compile libpng and libz
>  > yourself with -mno-cygwin so the client won't need the cygwin DLL.
>  > 
> Have you tried to running two or three civclients at the same time on 
> win95/win98/winme? Trident/Engels tileset?
> 
> The problem with your patch is the change of the Sprite struct.
> It saves a handle from CreateDibSection. 
> Gdk does the same thing...
> You know the result. You know how ugly I had to patch the gtk client
> for windows.

Oh, the dreaded bitmap limit. I thought it only applied to DDBs not DIBs.
My mistake. I don't have a 16bit GDI OS around to test it on.

> Can you change the patch so that it does not change the struct Sprite,
> please? 

Sure.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa