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  From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 22:34:15 +0200

Re: Got to be a faster way.

Andrew Apted wrote:
> 
> Christoph Egger writes:
> 
> >  I think I should move bitmap loading routines out too (iff/pbm, pcx, tga
> >  including RLE compression, Windows-bmp and OS/2-bmp).
> 
> If you do it, stick 'em in the display-file target.  It already writes
> PPM, but could be made to read/write lots of other formats.  You'll need
> to do something special for file-reading, e.g. a "-read" option which
> loads the image into memory and then behaves like a read-only
> display-memory target.

No thanks.
That would be plain bloat and misuse of the dynamic loading mechanism.
There are lots of tools to convert PPM images into whatever format you
want, and display _targets_ are hardly the right place to load images.

What is needed, not only for LibGGI, is an image loading library which:
a) is not dependent on X or any other graphics system.
b) uses GGI style dynamic loading to handle different image formats.

Then an extension which integrates this library with GGI visuals
can be written.

//Marcus
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