nanogui: Compilinging .xbm bitmap file into Nanox pixmaps
Subject:
Re: Compilinging .xbm bitmap file into Nanox pixmaps
From:
Jordan Crouse ####@####.####
Date:
26 Jan 2001 16:00:13 -0000
Message-Id: <3A719FD8.72E5E0E5@censoft.com>
Hey, I agree with you 100%. But you better than anyone should know
about the 10K limit on the socket. Try browsing with ViewML and see how
many images are skipped because we can't transfer them to the server
correctly.
Jordan
. Alex Holden wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > This can be easily fixed by a new Gr call, and a couple of mods to the
> > XPM parser, so if anyone is feeling in the mood, please feel free to
> > fire away.
>
> It should be possible (and in fact probably the default case) for the
> data to be supplied by the client. Consider:
>
> What happens when we load an image over the network? Save it to a
> temporary file and tell the server to load it? Blech.
> What if the client and the server are running on seperate machines?
> What if the client and the server are running as different users and the
> server doesn't have the necessary permissions to read the file?
> What if the image is compiled into the client executable?
>
> --
> ------- Alex Holden -------
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