[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2591) Nondenominational calendar patch

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Raimar Falke via RT <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I have no idea how much this simplifies it to add a flag.

It will make adding one pretty trivial.  All a composer will have to
do is come up with the bitmap for the individual flag.  The assembly
tool will take care of inserting it in a modified flags.png.

>   Each PNG file divided into equal sized tiles of size (dx,dy). There
>   may _one_ pixel spacing between these if is_pixel_border is set true
>   in the spec file.
> 
> For the flags and for the flags only: we crop the sprite further
> (gui-gtk/plrdlg.c:build_flag) by calling
> gui-gtk/graphics.c:sprite_get_bounding_box and
> gui-gtk/graphics.c:crop_sprite. And yes this is isn't what I would
> call nice.

No, it isn't.  But PIL may have an autocrop function that will do the
job.  Thanks for the clarification.
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