On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, John Levon wrote:
> On 24 Nov 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>
> > We have had this a _long_ time, and the reports from users have not
> > been really severe. So I really think we can live with this for 1.1.6
> > too.
>
> I think you missed my point - this is almost definitely an xforms bug that
> won't go away no matter how much re-wriiting of the graphics handling is
> done. I intend to spend some time with the ghostscript source next week,
> and maybe get round to a test case for the xforms mailing list.
Actually, it will go away. This is simply since for now I won't be using
ghostscript to do the image loading, rather I've changed to use
ImageMagick (or any other image converter) to convert the image to XPM and
then use X11 calls to load the XPM into a memory Pixmap. So there is no
ghostscript work in this and so *this* bug will disappear (I make no
comments on the [non-]existence of bugs in my code).
This is not to mean that solving this bug won't help, if this bug is
solved an image loader based on ghostscript can be written so that old
users won't find themselves needing a new program (ImageMagick) to work.
For those lucky users who will have the gnome libraries I can give a
better solution which is to use imlib, imlib2 or gdk-pixbuf in order to
load the images, these packages know to load quiet a few formats
themselves or use an external format convertor to get what they need.
I have no idea regarding Qt(1|2), since I don't have these toolkit
installed.
> So I think people are just *used* to it. I am determined to hit this bug
> as hard as I can :)
Make sure not to hit your fingers in the process :-)
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