Re: New bitmap code - testers required

[Charles Philip Chan]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:23:38 +0000
Pete French <pete@twisted.org.uk> wrote:

Hello Pete:

> Ah, O.K. - is someone else looking ito that & fixing it ? I lost a chunk
> of emails recently unfortunately.

Yes, the work around is already in the cvs version.

> Hmmm... I havent done any serious optimisation of it yet unfortunately.
> What size of mages are we talking about, whats the speed of the machine ?

After upgrading to the latest cvs version and applying your version 2 patch
(the GNUstep that I tested with before was a few days old) everything is
fine and the the speed is good now. The work around in the cvs version
really speed things up.

> Thats the behaviour of the spec though - if you drawInRect the image
> is scaled either way to exactly fit the recatngle.

I see. Then maybe there should be some code in Gworkspace.app to check the
size of the image and use a different method if it is smaller than the
Content Panel. It is not pretty to see a 48x48 icon scaled up to the size
of the Inspector.

> Is an NSImageRep supposed to load up types other than tiffs directly
> under GNUstep ?

I don't know, I am not a developer. I am just a user who sees a bright
future for GNustep and a love for the NeXTstep interface- that is why I am
beta testing and giving feed back. So far in the Content Inspector of
Gworkspace.app 2.7, I am able to load tiff's, jpeg's, xpm's. gif's. but not
png's.

> just tried feeding it a jpeg and it failed - does it use the 
> extension to determine the type ?).

Yes, it uses extensions to determine file types.

Regards,
Charles

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