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Not to complain too much, but the thread about Old style solution takes up space without adding anything to the article. Shouldn't something like that be in The Lounge?
BTW, the article is nicely written. The subject is frequently asked about.
One last quibble: you could scale down the screenshots so they don't take so long to download on my dial-up connection. No DSL or T1 here.
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Ed Gadziemski wrote:
the thread about Old style solution takes up space without adding anything to the article.
Heheh, ain't it cool though? A broken arc, showing at a glance that it is really two threads, neither having anything to do with the first two posts!
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A common man's understanding of science. Not a normal common man's of course. A very smart common man's. -- Nish, on Science Writing
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Shog9 wrote:
Heheh, ain't it cool though? A broken arc, showing at a glance that it is really two threads, neither having anything to do with the first two posts!
Yeah, that's sorta cool. A little weird though for any newcomer to CP. He comes here, reads the threads and is dead confused
Nish
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Ed Gadziemski wrote:
Not to complain too much, but the thread about Old style solution takes up space without adding anything to the article. Shouldn't something like that be in The Lounge?
Sorry! It should have been in the Lounge. But people (self included) just kept replying to mail-notifications by clicking on the direct message-link.
Ed Gadziemski wrote:
One last quibble: you could scale down the screenshots so they don't take so long to download on my dial-up connection. No DSL or T1 here.
This might surprise you. But I barely get 3 KB/s here. That's half the speed of a dial-up modem
Nish
p.s. Point noted anyway. Basically I tried to keep them within 500 pixels width. And since the compression JPEG I thought it'd not matter much.
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since the compression JPEG I thought it'd not matter much
The 3 pictures together total 80 KB. At 3 KB/s, that's almost half a minute to download. Of course, my download speed is about 5 KB/s here, so I get them in a mere 16 seconds (not counting the text and the advertisements and the CP headers and ...).
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Nish, I made lower-res, scaled versions of your screenshots. You can grab them from http://www.ravib.com/nish if you like.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Nish, I made lower-res, scaled versions of your screenshots. You can grab them from http://www.ravib.com/nish if you like.
Thanks Ravi!
But are GIF files allowed?
Nish
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I don't see why they'd be disallowed. My WebResourceProvider article uses GIFs because they're smaller.
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I saved them anyway
I wonder whether they are too small!
What did you use to do that?
And stretch.gif looks better than the original
Nish
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I use Photoshop (an older version - 4.0) for all my image editing needs. I'd be happy to post slightly larger ones if you'd like. I can also sharpen them a tad, if you prefer.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
I use Photoshop (an older version - 4.0) for all my image editing needs. I'd be happy to post slightly larger ones if you'd like. I can also sharpen them a tad, if you prefer.
Oh! I have Photoshop 6 here
All I need to do is resize them, right? Or do I have to apply any special filters to prevent quality-loss?
Nish
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
Oh! I have Photoshop 6 here
<drool>
I just do Image..Size and scale the screen shot to 50% (or less, if you prefer) and then do Filter..Sharpen if necessary. Then, File..Export..Gif89a and you're all set!
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
drool
Hehehe. We have a Multimedia team here and they have all these tools. I just borrow the CD for 15 minutes
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
I just do Image..Size and scale the screen shot to 50% (or less, if you prefer) and then do Filter..Sharpen if necessary. Then, File..Export..Gif89a and you're all set!
Thanks Ravi
For images with so many colors I always thought JPEG was better than GIF.
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
We have a Multimedia team here and they have all these tools.
Ah! Reminds me of when I worked at Kodak. They begged the engineers to take preproduction digital cameras on their vacations!
Nish - Native CPian wrote:
For images with so many colors I always thought JPEG was better than GIF.
You're right, but screenshots have very few colors (usually much less than 256).
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
You're right, but screenshots have very few colors (usually much less than 256).
Yeah, in this case true. Though you should see some of those new XP themes and styles. 24 bits barely suffices.
Nish
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
24 bits barely suffices.
How can 24 bits barely suffice ?
Christian
I am completely intolerant of stupidity. Stupidity is, of course, anything that doesn't conform to my way of thinking. - Jamie Hale - 29/05/2002
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Use GIF for pictures with large blocks of colour and JPEG when you have many colours and no clear cut division between picture elements. PNG does an excellent job of gradients and colour blocks so probably would be a good choice for your other article on gradients.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Use GIF for pictures with large blocks of colour and JPEG when you have many colours and no clear cut division between picture elements
Thanks Chris M
Chris Maunder wrote:
PNG does an excellent job of gradients and colour blocks so probably would be a good choice for your other article on gradients
Oh! I knew GIF wouldn't do since I was using multiple colors, that's why I used JPEG. But anyway each image is barely 10 KB (in the gradient article). That's alright, huh?
Nish
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This was already invented elsewere... Here you also find how to use transparent images as well.
It also works in the MDI and SDI apps (thus not only for Dialogs)..
You can find it here: http://www.codeguru.com/bitmap/logo_bitmap_in_client.shtml
Albert van Peppen
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Albert van Peppen wrote:
You can find it here: http://www.codeguru.com/bitmap/logo_bitmap_in_client.shtml
Hello Albert
I don’t frequent the codeguru web site. In fact I don’t go there at all and thus I am not quite conscious of precisely what articles codeguru has and what it hasn’t. I apologize to all codeguru visitors who have had to endure the agony of seeing a topic repeated.
Regards
Nish
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
Buy it, read it and admire me
Holy Crap!
NishAdmirersList.Add(new Admirer("Rama Krishna"));
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Rama Krishna wrote:
Holy Crap!
Hehehe
Maybe you can ask Shog to write a review. He's reading my book
Or maybe Roger Wright who might actually write a review as big as my whole book
Nish
Author of the romantic comedy
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The question is how did you get time out if CP to write a book?
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