• Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Georg
    Posts: 106 from 2004/4/7
    Quote:

    Piru wrote:

    Really? I think they look very different:

    http://aros.sourceforge.net/pictures/screenshots/20020706/preferences.png
    http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/bplan/morphos1.jpg

    Technically MorphOS timezone graphics is implemented by having a single globe map png:
    MorphOS/Prefs/Gfx/Timezones/earthmap.png and then smaller "selected" images for each timezone: MorphOS/Prefs/Gfx/Timezones/timezone_<n>.png The actual coordinate data for each timezone is encoded elsewhere as polygon coordinates.

    AROS appears to have a two images: first the worldmap and then the timezones one where each timezone is encoded in the different color. You also explain how this thing works in the workbench/prefs/locale/pics/README documentation. MorphOS doesn't work anything like this.



    What's same is the visible selected area when clicking a timezone (timezones_big.png, timezones_small.ilbm). So MOS timezone_<n>.png where probably created based on AROS timezone image. The MOS images are also the exact same size as the AROS _big images). And take a look at MOS's "mask.png".

    The way coordinates are mapped to timezones may very well be completely different. Or it was changed/rewritten over time. Like MOS Multiview which in old MOS versions used to be based on AROS, but not in newer versions.
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