Hello, James! On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, James Mills wrote: | I could write you up a set of such procedures or classes to do this, | however I'm starting back at uni. New semester :)
Good success at Uni! What are you studying? | Anyway, I'm sure there are others here on this mailing list that could | do the same. Possibly, yes. But you are the _first_ one who answered, so the number of people still seems to be very small... ;-) | Question: Why can't you do it yourself ? It isn't that hard to grab the | specs of the JPEG image format and learn it and write your own data | structures to contain the jpeg image data, decode it into pixel arrays... | It's all there in the specs :) Something about me: I started programming in Pascal roughly 15 years ago, on CP/M (Z80 CPU, 4MB RAM, 10MB HDD,...), later I changed to DOS with finally Borland Pascal, but I kept consequently away from Windoze programming. Finally I changed to Linux, which is more what I like DOS, than Windoze... But all this years I never wrote one line in assembly language, nor was there any need for me to include external code. I did everything in plain Pascal language, without any hacking and tweaking, which was perfect for writing all this userspecific software. So my primary problem is that I never got experience about how to solve such things like linking to external libraries. Of course, I could sit down and hope to find it out by myself with trial & error, but this is extremely inefficient and time consuming. Also success will be very low in this case. Another thing is: Why should I start re-inventing the wheel and writing my own JPEG/TIFF/.../units from scratch, when there exist a lot of ready made libraries? Isn't it the purpose of libraries to do exactly this? So I am looking for some help in form of _working_ samples which I can analyze and try to understand. It will also be very helpful if there would be somebody who could "teach" me a little bit and guide me to my first success. mfg Ing. Rainer Hantsch _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
