RE: [gtk-list] Re: Image Libraries

["Timothy M. Shead" <tshead k-3d com>]

I appreciate the quick responses to my post.  I agree that writing Yet
Another image library is a real pain-you-know-where, but it looks
increasingly inevitable to me, since it seems as if all of the libraries
I've looked at place a strong emphasis on displaying images, and end up tied
to the graphics subsystem.  What's needed is a simple
reader/framebuffer/color reduction/writer lib, totally independent of OS,
that shares an interface with display libraries, toolkits, like GTK+, etc.
I've also noted that many of the image libraries seem to use a plethora of
external connections to pbmplus, libjpeg, libthis, libthat, etc.  which
falls under the category of "too clever" in my book ... it's code reuse,
yes, but at the expense of maintainability.  The hypothetical ideal library
that I'm describing would make the individual image formats part of its
source tree.

Would anyone else be interested in such an animal?  Nothing else seems to
fit the bill, and I'd be willing to take it on, if it'll get used ...

Regards,
Timothy M. Shead
tshead@k-3d.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David N. Welton [mailto:davidw@linuxcare.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 5:50 PM
> To: gtk-list@redhat.com
> Subject: [gtk-list] Re: Image Libraries
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 08:45:52PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > "David N. Welton" <davidw@linuxcare.com> writes:
>
> > > Imlib also allows you to save images back to disk.  Gdk-pixbuf
> > > does not, afaik.
>
> > Good point, you're right.
>
> > Another reason for the poster to write their own library here.
>
> Hrmm, the two things that come to mind as solutions are:
>
> 1) subclass gdk-pixbuf.  But I don't know how easy that is to do, as
>    I'm not used to thinking about C as an object oriented language (I
>    have done nothing with gtk and gdk up untill now).
>
> 2) add this functionality to gdk-pixbuf. It's really not that much
>    code.
>
> Writing another library seems like a reinvention of the wheel.
>
> Ciao,
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