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- 256-Color bitmaps and RLE4 compression
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- 2. Set the compression option to "RLE4".
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- 3. Select Resource|Save Resource As and save the bitmap under a
- different file name.
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- 4. Select File|Open Project and load the compressed version of
- the bitmap.
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- If you cannot load the compressed bitmap, you must use the
- uncompressed bitmap file you saved in step 1.
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- If your 256-color driver fails to compress the bitmap correctly,
- contact the display driver vendor.
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