Re: Rotating images by 90,180 and 270 degrees.-

From: J.M. Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net>
Date: Mon Aug 20 2007 - 13:28:56 CEST

> > I don't see how Martin's proposal is anything else than what we always
> > do. Do you just don't like the property, and want to store the image
> > always rotated in the file (that would make more sense to me, as older
> > abi's would still be able to open them properly)?
>
> My understanding is that the image is stored un-rotated. Quoting Martin
> original's message:
>
> "Then the plan would be have a property "rotation" for images. If this
> property is not present, the image is unrotated. If it is present, then
> the image is rotated as requested after the construction of FG_Graphic."
>
> My point was that if we provide the rotate function in OLPC it makes sense
> to provide it in all the other platforms.

Ok, then my point would be: why store the image unrotated? This breaks
backwards compatibility, and requires more effort on load.

Marc
Received on Mon Aug 20 13:29:50 2007

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