1BITMAP(1) General Commands Manual BITMAP(1)
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6 bitmap, bmtoa, atobm - bitmap editor and converter utilities for the X
7 Window System
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10 bitmap [ -options ... ] [ filename ] [ basename ]
11 bmtoa [ -chars ... ] [ filename ]
13 atobm [ -chars cc ] [ -name variable ] [ -xhot number ] [ -yhot number
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18 The bitmap program is a rudimentary tool for creating or editing rec‐
19 tangular images made up of 1's and 0's. Bitmaps are used in X for
20 defining clipping regions, cursor shapes, icon shapes, and tile and
21 stipple patterns.
22 The bmtoa and atobm filters convert bitmap files (FILE FORMAT) to and
24 from ASCII strings. They are most commonly used to quickly print out
25 bitmaps and to generate versions for including in text.
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28 Bitmap supports the standard X Toolkit command line arguments (see
29 X(7)). The following additional arguments are supported as well.
30 -size WIDTHxHEIGHT
32 Specifies size of the grid in squares.
33 -sw dimension
35 Specifies the width of squares in pixels.
36 -sh dimension
38 Specifies the height of squares in pixels.
39 -gt dimension
41 Grid tolerance. If the square dimensions fall below the specified
42 value, grid will be automatically turned off.
43 -grid, +grid
45 Turns on or off the grid lines.
46 -axes, +axes
48 Turns on or off the major axes.
49 -dashed, +dashed
51 Turns on or off dashing for the frame and grid lines.
52 -stippled, +stippled
54 Turns on or off stippling of highlighted squares.
55 -proportional, +proportional
57 Turns proportional mode on or off. If proportional mode is on,
58 square width is equal to square height. If proportional mode is
59 off, bitmap will use the smaller square dimension, if they were
60 initially different.
61 -dashes filename
63 Specifies the bitmap to be used as a stipple for dashing.
64 -stipple filename
66 Specifies the bitmap to be used as a stipple for highlighting.
67 -hl color
69 Specifies the color used for highlighting.
70 -fr color
72 Specifies the color used for the frame and grid lines.
73 filename
75 Specifies the bitmap to be initially loaded into the program. If
76 the file does not exist, bitmap will assume it is a new file.
77 basename
79 Specifies the basename to be used in the C code output file. If it
80 is different than the basename in the working file, bitmap will
81 change it when saving the file.
82 Bmtoa accepts the following option:
84 -chars cc
86 This option specifies the pair of characters to use in the string
87 version of the bitmap. The first character is used for 0 bits and
88 the second character is used for 1 bits. The default is to use
89 dashes (-) for 0's and sharp signs (#) for 1's.
90 Atobm accepts the following options:
92 -chars cc
94 This option specifies the pair of characters to use when converting
95 string bitmaps into arrays of numbers. The first character repre‐
96 sents a 0 bit and the second character represents a 1 bit. The
97 default is to use dashes (-) for 0's and sharp signs (#) for 1's.
98 -name variable
100 This option specifies the variable name to be used when writing out
101 the bitmap file. The default is to use the basename of the file‐
102 name command line argument or leave it blank if the standard input
103 is read.
104 -xhot number
106 This option specifies the X coordinate of the hotspot. Only posi‐
107 tive values are allowed. By default, no hotspot information is
108 included.
109 -yhot number
111 This option specifies the Y coordinate of the hotspot. Only posi‐
112 tive values are allowed. By default, no hotspot information is
113 included.
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116 Bitmap displays grid in which each square represents a single bit in
117 the picture being edited. Actual size of the bitmap image, as it would
118 appear normally and inverted, can be obtained by pressing Meta-I key.
119 You are free to move the image popup out of the way to continue edit‐
120 ing. Pressing the left mouse button in the popup window or Meta-I
121 again will remove the real size bitmap image.
122 If the bitmap is to be used for defining a cursor, one of the squares
124 in the images may be designated as the hot spot. This determines where
125 the cursor is actually pointing. For cursors with sharp tips (such as
126 arrows or fingers), this is usually at the end of the tip; for symmet‐
127 ric cursors (such as crosses or bullseyes), this is usually at the cen‐
128 ter.
129 Bitmaps are stored as small C code fragments suitable for including in
131 applications. They provide an array of bits as well as symbolic con‐
132 stants giving the width, height, and hot spot (if specified) that may
133 be used in creating cursors, icons, and tiles.
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136 To edit a bitmap image simply click on one of the buttons with drawing
137 commands (Point, Curve, Line, Rectangle, etc.) and move the pointer
138 into the bitmap grid window. Press one of the buttons on your mouse
139 and the appropriate action will take place. You can either set, clear
140 or invert the gird squares. Setting a grid square corresponds to set‐
141 ting a bit in the bitmap image to 1. Clearing a grid square corre‐
142 sponds to setting a bit in the bitmap image to 0. Inverting a grid
143 square corresponds to changing a bit in the bitmap image from 0 to 1 or
144 1 to 0, depending what its previous state was. The default behavior of
145 mouse buttons is as specified below.
146 MouseButton1 Set
148 MouseButton2 Invert
149 MouseButton3 Clear
150 MouseButton4 Clear
151 MouseButton5 Clear
152 This default behavior can be changed by setting the button function
154 resources. An example is provided below.
155 bitmap*button1Function: Set
157 bitmap*button2Function: Clear
158 bitmap*button3Function: Invert
159 etc.
160 The button function applies to all drawing commands, including copying,
162 moving and pasting, flood filling and setting the hot spot.
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165 Here is the list of drawing commands accessible through the buttons at
166 the left side of the application's window. Some commands can be
167 aborted by pressing A inside the bitmap window, allowing the user to
168 select different guiding points where applicable.
169 Clear
171 This command clears all bits in the bitmap image. The grid squares
172 will be set to the background color. Pressing C inside the bitmap
173 window has the same effect.
174 Set This command sets all bits in the bitmap image. The grid squares
176 will be set to the foreground color. Pressing S inside the bitmap
177 window has the same effect.
178 Invert
180 This command inverts all bits in the bitmap image. The grid
181 squares will be inverted appropriately. Pressing I inside the bit‐
182 map window has the same effect.
183 Mark
185 This command is used to mark an area of the grid by dragging out a
186 rectangular shape in the highlighting color. Once the area is
187 marked, it can be operated on by a number of commands (see Up,
188 Down, Left, Right, Rotate, Flip, Cut, etc.) Only one marked area
189 can be present at any time. If you attempt to mark another area,
190 the old mark will vanish. The same effect can be achieved by
191 pressing Shift-MouseButton1 and dragging out a rectangle in the
192 grid window. Pressing Shift-MouseButton2 will mark the entire grid
193 area.
194 Unmark
196 This command will cause the marked area to vanish. The same effect
197 can be achieved by pressing Shift-MouseButton3.
198 Copy
200 This command is used to copy an area of the grid from one location
201 to another. If there is no marked grid area displayed, Copy
202 behaves just like Mark described above. Once there is a marked
203 grid area displayed in the highlighting color, this command has two
204 alternative behaviors. If you click a mouse button inside the
205 marked area, you will be able to drag the rectangle that represents
206 the marked area to the desired location. After you release the
207 mouse button, the area will be copied. If you click outside the
208 marked area, Copy will assume that you wish to mark a different
209 region of the bitmap image, thus it will behave like Mark again.
210 Move
212 This command is used to move an area of the grid from one location
213 to another. Its behavior resembles the behavior of Copy command,
214 except that the marked area will be moved instead of copied.
215 Flip Horizontally
217 This command will flip the bitmap image with respect to the hori‐
218 zontal axes. If a marked area of the grid is highlighted, it will
219 operate only inside the marked area. Pressing H inside the bitmap
220 window has the same effect.
221 Up This command moves the bitmap image one pixel up. If a marked area
223 of the grid is highlighted, it will operate only inside the marked
224 area. Pressing UpArrow inside the bitmap window has the same
225 effect.
226 Flip Vertically
228 This command will flip the bitmap image with respect to the verti‐
229 cal axes. If a marked area of the grid is highlighted, it will
230 operate only inside the marked area. Pressing V inside the bitmap
231 window has the same effect.
232 Left
234 This command moves the bitmap image one pixel to the left. If a
235 marked area of the grid is highlighted, it will operate only inside
236 the marked area. Pressing LeftArrow inside the bitmap window has
237 the same effect.
238 Fold
240 This command will fold the bitmap image so that the opposite cor‐
241 ners become adjacent. This is useful when creating bitmap images
242 for tiling. Pressing F inside the bitmap window has the same
243 effect.
244 Right
246 This command moves the bitmap image one pixel to the right. If a
247 marked area of the grid is highlighted, it will operate only inside
248 the marked area. Pressing RightArrow inside the bitmap window has
249 the same effect.
250 Rotate Left
252 This command rotates the bitmap image 90 degrees to the left
253 (counter clockwise.) If a marked area of the grid is highlighted,
254 it will operate only inside the marked area. Pressing L inside the
255 bitmap window has the same effect.
256 Down
258 This command moves the bitmap image one pixel down. If a marked
259 area of the grid is highlighted, it will operate only inside the
260 marked area. Pressing DownArrow inside the bitmap window has the
261 same effect.
262 Rotate Right
264 This command rotates the bitmap image 90 degrees to the right
265 (clockwise.) If a marked area of the grid is highlighted, it will
266 operate only inside the marked area. Pressing R inside the bitmap
267 window has the same effect.
268 Point
270 This command will change the grid squares underneath the mouse
271 pointer if a mouse button is being pressed down. If you drag the
272 mouse button continuously, the line may not be continuous, depend‐
273 ing on the speed of your system and frequency of mouse motion
274 events.
275 Curve
277 This command will change the grid squares underneath the mouse
278 pointer if a mouse button is being pressed down. If you drag the
279 mouse button continuously, it will make sure that the line is con‐
280 tinuous. If your system is slow or bitmap receives very few mouse
281 motion events, it might behave quite strangely.
282 Line
284 This command will change the gird squares in a line between two
285 squares. Once you press a mouse button in the grid window, bitmap
286 will highlight the line from the square where the mouse button was
287 initially pressed to the square where the mouse pointer is located.
288 By releasing the mouse button you will cause the change to take
289 effect, and the highlighted line will disappear.
290 Rectangle
292 This command will change the gird squares in a rectangle between
293 two squares. Once you press a mouse button in the grid window,
294 bitmap will highlight the rectangle from the square where the mouse
295 button was initially pressed to the square where the mouse pointer
296 is located. By releasing the mouse button you will cause the
297 change to take effect, and the highlighted rectangle will disap‐
298 pear.
299 Filled Rectangle
301 This command is identical to Rectangle, except at the end the rec‐
302 tangle will be filled rather than outlined.
303 Circle
305 This command will change the gird squares in a circle between two
306 squares. Once you press a mouse button in the grid window, bitmap
307 will highlight the circle from the square where the mouse button
308 was initially pressed to the square where the mouse pointer is
309 located. By releasing the mouse button you will cause the change
310 to take effect, and the highlighted circle will disappear.
311 Filled Circle
313 This command is identical to Circle, except at the end the circle
314 will be filled rather than outlined.
315 Flood Fill
317 This command will flood fill the connected area underneath the
318 mouse pointer when you click on the desired square. Diagonally
319 adjacent squares are not considered to be connected.
320 Set Hot Spot
322 This command designates one square in the grid as the hot spot if
323 this bitmap image is to be used for defining a cursor. Pressing a
324 mouse button in the desired square will cause a diamond shape to be
325 displayed.
326 Clear Hot Spot
328 This command removes any designated hot spot from the bitmap image.
329 Undo
331 This command will undo the last executed command. It has depth
332 one, that is, pressing Undo after Undo will undo itself.
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335 The File menu commands can be accessed by pressing the File button and
336 selecting the appropriate menu entry, or by pressing Ctrl key with
337 another key. These commands deal with files and global bitmap parame‐
338 ters, such as size, basename, filename etc.
339 New This command will clear the editing area and prompt for the name of
341 the new file to be edited. It will not load in the new file.
342 Load
344 This command is used to load a new bitmap file into the bitmap edi‐
345 tor. If the current image has not been saved, user will be asked
346 whether to save or ignore the changes. The editor can edit only
347 one file at a time. If you need interactive editing, run a number
348 of editors and use cut and paste mechanism as described below.
349 Insert
351 This command is used to insert a bitmap file into the image being
352 currently edited. After being prompted for the filename, click
353 inside the grid window and drag the outlined rectangle to the loca‐
354 tion where you want to insert the new file.
355 Save
357 This command will save the bitmap image. It will not prompt for
358 the filename unless it is said to be <none>. If you leave the
359 filename undesignated or -, the output will be piped to stdout.
360 Save As
362 This command will save the bitmap image after prompting for a new
363 filename. It should be used if you want to change the filename.
364 Resize
366 This command is used to resize the editing area to the new number
367 of pixels. The size should be entered in the WIDTHxHEIGHT format.
368 The information in the image being edited will not be lost unless
369 the new size is smaller that the current image size. The editor
370 was not designed to edit huge files.
371 Rescale
373 This command is used to rescale the editing area to the new width
374 and height. The size should be entered in the WIDTHxHEIGHT format.
375 It will not do antialiasing and information will be lost if you
376 rescale to the smaller sizes. Feel free to add you own algorithms
377 for better rescaling.
378 Filename
380 This command is used to change the filename without changing the
381 basename nor saving the file. If you specify - for a filename, the
382 output will be piped to stdout.
383 Basename
385 This command is used to change the basename, if a different one
386 from the specified filename is desired.
387 Quit
389 This command will terminate the bitmap application. If the file
390 was not saved, user will be prompted and asked whether to save the
391 image or not. This command is preferred over killing the process.
392
394 The Edit menu commands can be accessed by pressing the Edit button and
395 selecting the appropriate menu entry, or by pressing Meta key with
396 another key. These commands deal with editing facilities such as grid,
397 axes, zooming, cut and paste, etc.
398 Image
400 This command will display the image being edited and its inverse in
401 its actual size in a separate window. The window can be moved away
402 to continue with editing. Pressing the left mouse button in the
403 image window will cause it to disappear from the screen.
404 Grid
406 This command controls the grid in the editing area. If the grid
407 spacing is below the value specified by gridTolerance resource (8
408 by default), the grid will be automatically turned off. It can be
409 enforced by explicitly activating this command.
410 Dashed
412 This command controls the stipple for drawing the grid lines. The
413 stipple specified by dashes resource can be turned on or off by
414 activating this command.
415 Axes
417 This command controls the highlighting of the main axes of the
418 image being edited. The actual lines are not part of the image.
419 They are provided to aid user when constructing symmetrical images,
420 or whenever having the main axes highlighted helps your editing.
421 Stippled
423 This command controls the stippling of the highlighted areas of the
424 bitmap image. The stipple specified by stipple resource can be
425 turned on or off by activating this command.
426 Proportional
428 This command controls the proportional mode. If the proportional
429 mode is on, width and height of all image squares are forced to be
430 equal, regardless of the proportions of the bitmap window.
431 Zoom
433 This command controls the zoom mode. If there is a marked area of
434 the image already displayed, bitmap will automatically zoom into
435 it. Otherwise, user will have to highlight an area to be edited in
436 the zoom mode and bitmap will automatically switch into it. One
437 can use all the editing commands and other utilities in the zoom
438 mode. When you zoom out, undo command will undo the whole zoom
439 session.
440 Cut This commands cuts the contents of the highlighted image area into
442 the internal cut and paste buffer.
443 Copy
445 This command copies the contents of the highlighted image area into
446 the internal cut and paste buffer.
447 Paste
449 This command will check if there are any other bitmap applications
450 with a highlighted image area, or if there is something in the
451 internal cut and paste buffer and copy it to the image. To place
452 the copied image, click in the editing window and drag the outlined
453 image to the position where you want to place i, and then release
454 the button.
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457 Bitmap supports two cut and paste mechanisms; the internal cut and
458 paste and the global X selection cut and paste. The internal cut and
459 paste is used when executing copy and move drawing commands and also
460 cut and copy commands from the edit menu. The global X selection cut
461 and paste is used whenever there is a highlighted area of a bitmap
462 image displayed anywhere on the screen. To copy a part of image from
463 another bitmap editor simply highlight the desired area by using the
464 Mark command or pressing the shift key and dragging the area with the
465 left mouse button. When the selected area becomes highlighted, any
466 other applications (such as xterm, etc.) that use primary selection
467 will discard their selection values and unhighlight the appropriate
468 information. Now, use the Paste command for the Edit menu or control
469 mouse button to copy the selected part of image into another (or the
470 same) bitmap application. If you attempt to do this without a visible
471 highlighted image area, the bitmap will fall back to the internal cut
472 and paste buffer and paste whatever was there stored at the moment.
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475 Below is the widget structure of the bitmap application. Indentation
476 indicates hierarchical structure. The widget class name is given
477 first, followed by the widget instance name. All widgets except the
478 bitmap widget are from the standard Athena widget set.
479 Bitmap bitmap
481 TransientShell image
482 Box box
483 Label normalImage
484 Label invertedImage
485 TransientShell input
486 Dialog dialog
487 Command okay
488 Command cancel
489 TransientShell error
490 Dialog dialog
491 Command abort
492 Command retry
493 TransientShell qsave
494 Dialog dialog
495 Command yes
496 Command no
497 Command cancel
498 Paned parent
499 Form formy
500 MenuButton fileButton
501 SimpleMenu fileMenu
502 SmeBSB new
503 SmeBSB load
504 SmeBSB insert
505 SmeBSB save
506 SmeBSB saveAs
507 SmeBSB resize
508 SmeBSB rescale
509 SmeBSB filename
510 SmeBSB basename
511 SmeLine line
512 SmeBSB quit
513 MenuButton editButton
514 SimpleMenu editMenu
515 SmeBSB image
516 SmeBSB grid
517 SmeBSB dashed
518 SmeBSB axes
519 SmeBSB stippled
520 SmeBSB proportional
521 SmeBSB zoom
522 SmeLine line
523 SmeBSB cut
524 SmeBSB copy
525 SmeBSB paste
526 Label status
527 Pane pane
528 Bitmap bitmap
529 Form form
530 Command clear
531 Command set
532 Command invert
533 Toggle mark
534 Command unmark
535 Toggle copy
536 Toggle move
537 Command flipHoriz
538 Command up
539 Command flipVert
540 Command left
541 Command fold
542 Command right
543 Command rotateLeft
544 Command down
545 Command rotateRight
546 Toggle point
547 Toggle curve
548 Toggle line
549 Toggle rectangle
550 Toggle filledRectangle
551 Toggle circle
552 Toggle filledCircle
553 Toggle floodFill
554 Toggle setHotSpot
555 Command clearHotSpot
556 Command undo
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559 If you would like bitmap to be viewable in color, include the following
560 in the #ifdef COLOR section of the file you read with xrdb:
561 *customization: -color
563 This will cause bitmap to pick up the colors in the app-defaults color
565 customization file:
566 /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap-color
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571 Bitmap widget is a stand-alone widget for editing raster images. It is
572 not designed to edit large images, although it may be used in that pur‐
573 pose as well. It can be freely incorporated with other applications
574 and used as a standard editing tool. The following are the resources
575 provided by the bitmap widget.
576 Bitmap Widget
579 Header file Bitmap.h
581 Class bitmapWidgetClass
582 Class Name Bitmap
583 Superclass Bitmap
584 All the Simple Widget resources plus ...
586 Name Class Type Default Value
589 foreground Foreground Pixel XtDefaultForeground
590 highlight Highlight Pixel XtDefaultForeground
591 framing Framing Pixel XtDefaultForeground
592 gridTolerance GridTolerance Dimension 8
593 size Size String 32x32
594 dashed Dashed Boolean True
595 grid Grid Boolean True
596 stippled Stippled Boolean True
597 proportional Proportional Boolean True
598 axes Axes Boolean False
599 squareWidth SquareWidth Dimension 16
600 squareHeight SquareHeight Dimension 16
601 margin Margin Dimension 16
602 xHot XHot Position NotSet (-1)
603 yHot YHot Position NotSet (-1)
604 button1Function Button1Function DrawingFunction Set
605 button2Function Button2Function DrawingFunction Invert
606 button3Function Button3Function DrawingFunction Clear
607 button4Function Button4Function DrawingFunction Invert
608 button5Function Button5Function DrawingFunction Invert
610 filename Filename String None ("")
611 basename Basename String None ("")
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615 Davor Matic, MIT X Consortium
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