Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:43:23 +1000
> Mat Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>>g'day Mattias,
>>
>>thanks for that detailed explanation of the details of TLazIntfImage and
>>FPImage !
>>
>>that has highlighted another important issue that i was not aware of:
>>our code also makes heavy use of palette operations to reduce images to
>>very compact grayscales - so i'll have to think through the lack of them
>>in FPImage very carefully.
>
>
> No. FPImage supports palettes. The LCL part does not support them yet.
>
>
>
>>there's a nice irony here: palettes were
>>developed (in part) because early PC's had very limited (graphics)
>>memory - so palettes are an anachronism in this day of 256M video cards
>>- but an anachronism that is essential to our work.
>>
>>as far as 64 bit Lazarus is concerned, i wasn't expecting it to work
>>now, but it's clearly going to happen eventually - in contrast to Delphi
>>64.
>
>
> Sure. AFAIK fpc already works on 64 bit.
Lazarus starts already on AMD64. However, it crashes when trying to show a
dialog. Looks like a TReader problem.
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