On 7 Jun 1999, Lars R.Clausen wrote:
> >> [1] BTW, what was that other image library somebody mentioned? I'd like
> >> to check it out.
> >>
> > GD? Look at www.boutell.com (I think) it has perl bindings too...which
> > are really nice.
>
> No, that's too small for our use. We need to be able to load just about
> any bitmap format, not just GIF.
>
When I mentioned GD it was in the context of doing a rendering engine for
GIFs...in which case GD is just about right. Is there something that imlib
is not working for that we need another library?
BTW, one of the other admins at my work asked me to put a date on the
document I had given her. Is there any provision for a date field? (You
know, the ones that are filled in when printed, or in our case exported
to EPS) if not I'll cook up an object. Just a quick question, I would
think the proper place for it is in standard objects, but where do we show
it on screen? I would think the proper way to do it is to put one of those
little arrows in the bottom corner of Text icon and have it slide out, ala
Photoshop, but I have no idea how to implement that. On the other hand it
would probably be useful for other applications (I haven't seen any other
gtk apps do this...maybe somebody has done it?). Of course there are
probably alot of these kind of fields possible, date, page number, total
pages, file name, etc...
The other feature I'm interested in is the ability to drag the object tabs
out of the notebook. For instance when doing my Sybase drawings I have to
flip between the Sybase tab (forgot to bring them home from work
today...expect them tommorow evening) and the Network tab. Pulling them
into their own window via handle box would be a great convenience. Has
anyone investigated this?
Brian
