On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 06:18:48PM +0200, Rainer Hantsch wrote: > 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?
Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering at Griffith University (Australia, QLD) > > > | 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. As you'll read in other posts just recently there are jpeg units for pascal that do this. I probably have some myself that I'm unaware of :) cheers James > > > > mfg > > Ing. Rainer Hantsch > > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal -- - -Zero Defect Software Engineers Group - ZDSEG - -You need only two tools. WD-40 and duct tape. -If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. -If it moves and shouldn't, use the tape. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
