Subject: Re: More on imaging
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Sat Apr 28 2001 - 21:10:02 CDT
At 06:44 PM 4/27/2001 -0700, Paul Rohr wrote:
>As of this last grand mal post, I think I've batted all the imaging balls
>back out of my court. If I've missed anything relevant, please let me know.
Nope, you left a LOT of stuff unanswered!
>At 10:09 AM 4/26/01 -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> > The problem is that you also need to break down the areas of
> >"image handling" as well to determine what is XP, what is platform,
> >etc. Consider:
> >
> >* Raster file format handling (JPEG, PNG, etc.)
> >* Vector file format handling (SVG, WMF, etc.)
> >* Conversion of vector format to RGBA buffer (ie. a rasterizer!)
> >* RGBA buffer tracking
> >* Image manipulation (scaling, etc.)
> >* Blitting buffer to platform "window"
> >
Out of all of these, you ONLY addressed 1, 4 and 6. You still
need to comment about vector handling (including rasterization) and image
manipulation...
>I'll get the ball rolling by asserting that the only API I ever cared about
>-- the switching mechanism to invoke this whole mess (from importers,
>clipboard, etc.) -- should definitely be XP.
That I agree on! However, I believe that we can reduce code
duplication by moving more lower level stuff into XP - though perhaps this
is post 1.0 work...
LDR
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