Re: Image Loaders on Win32 (was Re: Re[2]: Packaging wishes for 2.0.1)

From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Wed Oct 22 2003 - 12:45:34 EDT

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    At 9:06 AM -0700 10/22/03, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    >So, on Unix, we have an architecture called GdkPixbuf.
    >On MacOSX, there is QuickTime. Like ImageMagick,
    >they're capable of loading lots of different image
    >formats, displaying it, and giving you back the image
    >in some other format - say PNG, RGBA, etc...

            Right...

    >I was just wondering if there was anything similar on
    >Win32 and QNX. Could be a COM object. Could be some
    >GDI/GDI+ APIs that I'm unfamiliar with. MSIE,
    >MSOffice, etc... use some control or API to do this.
    >Why can't we do the same?

            GDI+ can do it - see <http://www.codeguru.com/gdi/GDIPlus.html>.

            For backwards compatibility (and less image formats
    supportes), there is IPicture/OleLoadPicture - see
    <http://www.codeproject.com/bitmap/cpicture.asp>.

    Leonard 

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