Re: [Plib-devel] Exposed bitmap loaders in SSG?

[Jan R. <slo...@gm...>]

Am Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:03:55 -0600 schrieb steve <sjb...@ai...>:

> If you want to take on this task, I think you should start a new
> PLIB library component (plibImage with a 'pi' prefix or something)
> - get it all up and working as a stand-alone thing (probably
> copying/stealing code from SSG to do that).   When it's all running
> and reliable, we could just switch SSG over to using it.  This would
> mean zero changes to SSG until we are ready to do the switch.

Steve,

if I want to - read: if my limited spare time allows me to - take
on this task or not depends on how much extra work is involved
to do this.

Let's think about a least-effort-approach to get "plibImage" started:

- copy the raw image loader code to new "PI" files
- define a unified API for the raw loaders, maybe using
  some kind of piImage object to store the raw image data and some
  additional information (width, height, pixel format)
- write some central functions like piInit() and piLoadImage()
  (or piImageFactory() or whatever)
- write piHaveLoaderFor() which, at the moment, does not try
  to dynamically load any additional libraries and only returns
  "true" for the PLIB-internal loaders

Kind regards,
Jan R.

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