Tga (targa) files are probably rare in any case. When I was writing image editing software, we had a module to read and write these. I am not certain we ever had a customer use them though.
BMP files are a Microsoft format, and there are technical reasons for not supporting them in addition to any licensing issues. BMP files have two different formats - device independent and device dependent. The device dependent format is actually a hodgepodge of different possibilities with in depth knowledge of the format and the device needed to properly display an image. For example, 8 color bitmaps are stored as a page of red followed by a page of green followed by a page of blue. 16 color bitmaps on the other hand are stored as a line of red, a line of green, a line of blue, a line of intensity, followed by the next line of red, green, blue, and intensity. None of this is published by Microsoft, and most implementations miss it. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Anderson Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 11:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] missing read_rgb_texture implementation (in gutil.h, never defined in gutil.cpp) I removed support for .bmp and .tga image formats because of licensing issues. JPEG is the only supported format now. -- D On 04-Sep-2012 2:42 PM, Carl Christensen wrote: > oh I guess it's from the recent true-type font shake-up -- we lost > "texture.cpp" -- but I don't think that's a font-related thing, ie it seems > to be handy texture/image stuff which I've been using for years. was there a > licensing problem (it seems pretty generic utility code). > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, > visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
