[Pipmak-Users] Imaging manipulation methods

[Andrea V. <and...@gm...>]

Hi, Christian

I'm start a new tread, because I cannot manage to visualize your last reply
in gmane (but only in nabble)
which across the two mailinglist (start from "devel" end go to "user")

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.games.devel.pipmak.devel/77

About image manipulation,
I understand that loadimage() come from last pipmak version, when image 
manipulation was not possible, and you want preserve its old behaviour.

With the Adding the constructor newimage("/path/image.ext"),
loadimage could become obsolet and maintained only for backward compatibility.  

Another possibility could be adding method:

image:copyfrom("/path/image.ext")

and next

image:copyfrom("/path/image.ext",x,y,w,h)

permitting the loading of a image file just in a limited portion of the
newimage, this will be very usefull, instead using a lot of patches to
create composed image.

I don't known if having object carrying modifiable and unmodifiable image
could be a good idea...I think could confuse newbies... 

Andrea