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  From: teunis <teunis@computersupportcentre.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:36:29 -0700 (MST)

Re: Got to be a faster way.

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Marcus Sundberg wrote:

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> 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.

Someone come up with a spec and I'll help do loaders.
I've got -piles- lying around here.  Easy enough and I've always wanted
something like this ('specially now that my lisp/UI code is operational
:) [well, no lisp yet but UI works :]

Never had the foggiest how to handle the initial layout. Could never
decide on an image interface.

Note: handle frames!  (ie: GIFs) - and timing between frames...
Some animation forms can be handled this way too but I'd pretty much draw
the line initially at animated GIFs and perhaps FLI's and FLC's :)

Mayhaps plugins to transform images to desired layouts (for efficiency
sometimes or perhaps because a certain target [ie OpenGL] requires
specific image layouts])

G'day, eh? :)
	- Teunis

Yes I've thought about it.  I've also written about a dozen completely
incompatible image-loaders.  *sigh*

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