- Show splash on "Help - About" with all version information
- Show splash with news on startup (if show_splash is on of course).
I made another small patch to the splash screen. Because the greenish background colour always seemed a little odd to me, I decided
to make it transparent. Doing that, I found the following:
- The splash picture was a 24-bit bitmap, although it had less than 256 colours. That makes the size of the final executable about
200K larger than necessary. I changed it to a 256-colour bitmap. I also changed the background colour to the default tile background
colour, for consistency. The new bitmap is attached here. My excuses if the large file means a problem to anyone.
- In Microsoft's documentation (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/bitmaps_2y9g.asp) is is
stated that on Windows 95/98 "TransparentBlt contains a memory leak that can exhaust system resources." It is recommended to use
different code to draw transparent bitmaps, to be precise: the alternative code that is already in nhapply_image_transparent(). I'm
almost convinced that this is the cause for Betabug B08008 reported bij <Someone>. Can anyone confirm he is using 95/98? I decided
for the easy way out and removed the code that uses TransparentBlt completely. I see not much reason to use it if it is a) buggy and
b) we have an alternative that works perfectly. This is attached as trans.patch.
- The rest of the patch only changes the BitBlt() in mhsplash.c to a nhapply_image_transparent().
The splash screen uses the VERSION_MAJOR,
VERSION_MINOR, and PATCHLEVEL macros, but there is no room in case one
of these goes into two digits. That seems like a safe assumption to
make.
The Makefile have rip.uu/splash.uu added to them. However, this won't
work if you don't have splash.uu. Instead, just copy rip.uu or another
.uu and name it splash.uu. Make expects to have splash.uu present (at
least Borland's make). It doesn't add splash.uu decoding to the IDE
framework. It does a bit in winhack.rc and Makefile.bcc to bring
winhack.rc up to sync with Borland's compiler. If you don't like the
splash screen, then I'll have to redo that part of the patch apart from
the others.
