Re: refcounting images


Subject: Re: refcounting images
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 21:28:58 CDT


At 06:54 PM 4/21/01 +0200, Paolo Molaro wrote:
>On 04/20/01 Paul Rohr wrote:
>> At 04:43 PM 4/20/01 +0200, Paolo Molaro wrote:
>> >What we should fix is this, instead: try to insert an image and
>> >delete it from the document. Save the (empty) document and you will
>> >find the image data there. Repeat a few times and the document
>> >will grow to some MBs quickly.
>[...]
>> 1. open a document
>> 2. do some typing
>> 3. add an image
>> 4. do some typing
>> 5. remove the image
>> 6. do some more typing
>> 7. undo to step 4
>> 8. undo to step 2
>>
>> Saves immediately after steps 1, 2, 5, 6, *and 8* should not include that
>> image. Saves immediately after steps 3, 4, *and 7* should include it.
>
>That simplified gets us a nice single rule:
>1) don't save the image if it's not currently present in the document:-)

Yeah. I was just being extra-explicit to ensure that we didn't fix the
problem in the wrong place. ;-) Sometimes it's easy to forget about undo.

>I just filed a bug about this in bugzilla.

Thanks!

Paul



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