tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 09 21:10:42 1995
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Re: my rendered trefoil
- From: [email protected] (MR NATHAN B CLARK)
- Subject: Re: my rendered trefoil
- Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 23:18:30 EDT
Jim Boniface ([email protected]) wrote:
> David Barron wrote:
> >Agreed! I LOVE it.
> >I need to know how to install it as my startup screen.
> >Can you send my your advice, please?
> >David Barron
> >
> Thank you too! The easiest way to convert it is with like LVIEW or
> something, if you're using windoze (like me) convert it to a .BMP and
put it
> in your windows directory, then in control panel, open the desktop
icon. and
> change the wallpaper setting to whatever you named the picture.
>
> thanks again!
I think David is asking how to transfer the image into your WIN.COM
file in order to display the image at start-up, i.e., instead of the
'Windows 3.x' blue logo, rather than converting it to wallpaper.
Unfortunately, David, you can't. The image has to first be converted
into a 4-bit .RLE image, which is just a compressed .BMP. It would
actually be a three-step process. First, you'd have to change the .GIF
into a .BMP, such as with LView, as Jim stated, then compress it into
an .RLE, using a program such as BMP2RLE, or something similar, and
then alter/create a new WIN.COM file, which is the file that the start-
up logo is stored in, the same exact file that executes when you type
'win'. I know BMP2RLE will convert a .BMP straight into the WIN.COM
file for you, skipping the .RLE converson all together, at least to you
it would look like it was skipped... However, there are stand alone
programs that will transfer an .RLE into your WIN.COM file. The
problem, though, is this: Jim's .GIF is, first of all, superb, but
unfortunately, it's also huge. It's over 430K. When converted to a
.BMP, it grows to almost 770K. Windows places a limit on the size of
the .RLE that can be placed into the WIN.COM file, and that limit is
about 58K. Even after compression of the .BMP, the .RLE would be much
too large to place into the WIN.COM file. So, unless you are able to
shrink the size of the .BMP and/or cut away at the sides or somehow get
it to under 58K as an .RLE, we'll have to settle for keeping it as
wallpaper. Too bad, too...great GIF...
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Nathan B. Clark
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