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- ==== README.RW ====
-
- This file describes possible solutions to two problems you might
- encounter using certain display drivers with Resource Workshop.
-
-
- 256-Color bitmaps and RLE4 compression
- --------------------------------------
-
- Due to problems with many 256-color display drivers for Windows
- 3.x, saving a bitmap with the RLE4 compression feature of
- Resource Workshop enabled can fail to produce valid output files.
-
- Under Windows, the display driver is responsible for providing
- RLE compression when it is requested. However, because many
- display drivers do not implement this feature correctly, we
- recommend that you take the following steps when attempting to
- use RLE4 compression:
-
- 1. Save the bitmap with the compression option set to "None".
- This ensures that you will have a usable copy of your bitmap
- if the remaining steps are not successful.
-
- 2. Set the compression option to "RLE4".
-
- 3. Select Resource|Save Resource As and save the bitmap under a
- different file name.
-
- 4. Select File|Open Project and load the compressed version of
- the bitmap.
-
- If you cannot load the compressed bitmap, you must use the
- uncompressed bitmap file you saved in step 1.
-
- If your 256-color driver fails to compress the bitmap correctly,
- contact the display driver vendor.
-
-
- Flood-fill with the paint bucket tool
- -------------------------------------
-
- Because of problems inherent to display drivers, flood-filling a
- section of a bitmap using the paint bucket tool can fail to
- produce the desired result.
-
- Resource Workshop provides an alternate version of the flood-fill
- algorithm that is slower but more reliable than the version
- provided by most Windows 3.x display drivers.
-
- You can enable Resource Workshop's flood-fill algorithm by adding
- a flag called "RWS_OwnFloodFill" to the Icon editor section
- ([RWS_Icon]) of WORKSHOP.INI. Set the flag to 1.
-
- The edited section of WORKSHOP.INI should look something like
- this:
-
- [RWS_Icon]
- RWS_OwnFloodFill=1
- PercentLeft=50
- ZoomLeft=8
- ZoomRight=1
- bVert=1
-
- Contact the display driver vendor if you experience flood-fill
- problems.
-
- ==== END OF README.RW ====