Re: Customizing the fringe bitmaps

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Kim F. Storm wrote:

> I would like to volounteer to write the code to make the fringe
> bitmaps customizable.

Thank you!

> However, I don't know what the interface to this feature should be.
> 
> One option is to load the bitmap from a (pbm) file.
> 
> Another option would be to let the user draw the bitmap like this:
> 
> (set-fringe-bitmap 'overlay-arrow 
>                  '("*        "
>                    "***      "
>                    "*****    "
>                    "*******  "
>                    "*******  "
>                    "*****    "
>                    "***      "
>                    "*        "))
> 
> Personally, I like the second option as it is fully self-contained.

How about both?

> The major problem with this approach is that it isn't obvious (to me)
> how to do this through Customize.

Hmm.. couldn't you let the user choose either a bitmap file or a list
of strings?