Subj : xbin
To   : Digital Man
From : MRO
Date : Mon Mar 07 2022 21:28:46

  Re: xbin
  By: Digital Man to MRO on Mon Mar 07 2022 01:20 pm

 >  > well i did a trump bitmap and it didnt turn out so well.
 >  > https://i.imgur.com/tOgvBVM.png
 >
 >  > now i made sure i decreased the color.
 >
 > Decreased... to one? Only monochrome bitmaps are supported.
 >


okay that's probably it. i did two colors. i dont think my editor did monocrome.

 >  > i'm just doing  the show command and i
 >  > renamed it to trump.xb
 >  > now it turned out purple barf instead of green barf.
 >
 > Renamed what?

it creates multiple output files so i renamed one to make it simple.

 > Perhaps closely watch the status/errors reported when using "xbimage
 > create". --
 >                                             digital man (rob)

it didnt do any errors

c:\temp\trump.14.xb (80x35) created successfully
Converting c:\temp\trump.bmp (640x480) to 8 char-height XBin: c:\temp\trump.8.xb
glyphs 4800
de-duplicating
done
Unique glyphs: 607
Total glyphs: 4800
Total glyphs: 4800
Creating c:\temp\trump.8.xb
c:\temp\trump.8.xb (80x60) created successfully
C:\sbbs\exec\xbimage.js executed in 22.73 seconds

JavaScript: Destroying context
JavaScript: Destroying runtime

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okay i used windows paint and saved as monocrome.

it didnt turn out great. probably because of the white bg
https://i.imgur.com/oBJJopW.png

i know years ago deuce was working on displaying image files like jpgs but they were in a separate window.  it would be nice if syncterm could display a png in the client the way it can display these xb files.

i think that would be a big game changer for the client.
not sure if that's possible though without a big rewrite.

looks like this format requires a lot of image tweaking and has a lot of limitations. that's probably why it wasnt widely used.
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