Tkinter Bitmap Newbie question

[Neil Hodgson]

Wim Goffin:

> But just to make sure I'm on the right track,
> - Is XBM the best way to for bitmaps? The ones I saw so far are all black 
> and white. Do they also exist in color?

   XPM is the version of XBM with colour.

> - Is XBM also the best format for glyphs on the Windows platform? Or would 
> 'Images' of a different format be nicer?

   It depends on what you want to do with icons. Do you want users to be 
able to change icons? It is less likely Windows users will have tools 
for manipulating XPM files. The only feature that you are likely to want 
that is not available from XPM is multi-level transparency which is 
available from PNG files. 

   My generic advice without additional details of your project is that 
PNG is the best format for icons displayed by your code. Icons used by 
the operating system such as for applications should be in a format 
supported by that OS: Windows prefers ICO files.

> - Does someone know of a nice downloadable collection of standard glyphs 
> (Bitmaps for Open file, New file, Save file, ...) with a free license?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/icon-collection/

   Neil