Re: animations with gdk-pixbuf

[Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang iNsu com>]

> Have you seen the progressive loading API for gdk-pixbuf?
> <http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gdk-pixbuf/gdkpixbufloader.html>
> 
> If you added support for multi-page tiffs to the tiff-loader, you could
> potentially feed data to the loader, use the frame when the page comes
> in, and unref it when done.  This way you only have one page in memory
> at one time.  It would, of course, be better to have gdk-pixbuf support
> bitmaps, but the issues involved with that have already been hashed out
> on this list.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan
> 
This pixbufloader thing seems interesting, but I think it would be
easier/cleaner to add this multi-page stuff into io-tiff directly.
Btw, bitmap tiff images can still be loaded to an RGB buffer with the
TIFFReadRGBAImage, which is higher level anyway.

So the issues of multi-page tiff and of bitmap images are separated
for the moment.


W