Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 23:07:01 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Splash screen (splashkit) for 3.0 systems... Message-ID: <199801071237.XAA00299@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 1998 21:49:28 %2B1030." <199801071119.VAA00238@word.smith.net.au>
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> > How about GIF? > > Sure. Do you have a compact decoder? I'm more than aware of the > various formats around; as I said the *only* reason I used DIB was that > parsing it is so simple that even the Windows weenies can do it. Just to take this a little further; if there is consensus that being able to use "normal" Windows-style startup screens is a Good Thing, and that splash-fiends are willing to live with a 64K hit for the image, then I'll stop worrying about it and move on. (I'm working on making it work in the kzip environment tonight; when I'm done I plan to remove the compile-it-in option altogether.) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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