wxWidgets terminal : XPM cursors and icons

[<tim...@en...>]

Dear all,

I have several questions regarding the use of cursors and icons in the
wxWidgets terminal :

1) Petr Mikulik reported that the cross cursor was not working properly
for him. This is the default cursor when the mouse is on the graph. It is
supposed to be a black cross surrounded by a white border so that it is
visible on a dark background, with a transparent "hole" in the center. On
Petr's machine, the cross is all white. Have the other people that have
tried the wxWidgets terminal seen this ?
(by the way, how many of you actually tried it or use it ?)

2) Lars Hecking reported that 'make check' before 'make install' will
complain (just a warning) because it doesn't find the PNG icons used in
the toolbar. Indeed they have to be installed in
PREFIX/share/gnuplot/4.1/png before they can be used. I proposed to
replace the PNG icons by XPM icons included at compile time. Then the
problem of finding the icons vanishes, but the executable's size grows.

As I said to Lars :

"A 16x16 PNG file is ~700 Bytes.
A 16x16 XPM file is ~2.5 kBytes, plus a second XPM file for the alpha
channel (so that the icons look good), ~700 Bytes.

There are 9 icons in the terminal's toolbar, so using XPM icons would
include ~30 kBytes into the source files. I don't really know if these 30
kBytes are somewhat compressed into the final binary, but at worst we add
30 kBytes."

What do you think about this ?

Timoth=E9e