From 1144e48de36dce2a6ac9be6703877260af467130 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Domke Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:48:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] some information about pathnames --- doc/SKINS | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/SKINS b/doc/SKINS index 862ba28..3850442 100644 --- a/doc/SKINS +++ b/doc/SKINS @@ -20,6 +20,20 @@ screens these are the different widgets for the screens. they can also be embedded in the screens itself. +pixmap paths +============ +there is no lookup order, but exactly one place to search for pixmaps. +You can either: + - specify a full pathname (PLEASE, don't!), with a trailing slash. + - specify a relative pathname, without trailing slash. + The file will be searched for under the default skin image directory. + use this to refer to pixmaps which are included in the default + distribution, i.e. no skin specific stuff but for example the + number bitmaps etc. + - relative to the skin's directory (with a trailing "~/"). + ~ in this case can be seen as the skin's "home directory", that's the + place where the skin.xml is. + use this if you are building a skin. A NOTE ABOUT PNGs ================= @@ -101,7 +115,7 @@ check this. (*) Note, that, technically, if we start with a alpha=1 background (i.e. only video), and alphablend on this, we generalized the problem enough that we can handle both cases the same. But currently, we have to differentiate -between them, as we can't always alphablend. +between them, as we can't always alphablend simply for performance reasons. lcd: ==== -- 2.7.4