Re: Locating a (bitmap) file

[Dave Greenwood <greenwoodde(at)ornl.gov>]

"J.D. Smith" <jdsmith@astro.cornell.edu> wrote:
[big snip]
>  
> Of course, we *could* have hoped RSI would have simply allowed embedded
> representations of color bitmaps, just as they did black and white
> ones.   Like:
>  
> widget_button,value=mybmp
>  
> instead of 
>  
> widget_button,value='my.bmp'
>  
> Maybe they thought we were not smart enough to encode color icons. 
> 5.4.1 perhaps?

I've been given to understand that during the initial design of this
feature the engineers queried some folks about which method was
preferred.  Although the vote was strongly in favor of the former
method, obviously it was the latter one that showed up.  I also
understand that there's at least one feature request in for color
icons in arrays.

Dave
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Dave Greenwood                Email: Greenwoodde@ORNL.GOV
Oak Ridge National Lab        %STD-W-DISCLAIMER, I only speak for myself