LibROSprite

What is LibROSprite?

LibROSprite is a library for decoding RISC OS Sprite format bitmaps, written in C. It was developed as part of the NetSurf project and is available for use by other software under the MIT licence.

Features

• Simple C API
• Portable
• Supports old and new style Sprites
• Supports Sprites with custom palettes
• Supports standard RISC OS 1-bit, 2-bit, 4-bit and 8-bit palettes
• Supports CMYK colour Sprites
• Supports traditional 1-bit mask
• Supports both alpha channel Sprites (Tinct, Photodesk, Compo), and 8-bit mask Sprites (RISC OS Ltd)

Future:

• RISC OS Sprite export?
• Available and packaged in major Linux distributions?

Source code

You can browse the source code via the online interface. Alternatively, you can check it out of SVN:

$ svn co svn://svn.netsurf-browser.org/trunk/librosprite

LibROSprite is licensed under the MIT Licence.

Contact

If you would like to help develop LibROSprite, or have questions about the library, please join the NetSurf developer mailing list.