On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Andrew Apted wrote:
> Christoph Egger writes:
>
> > Is anyone here already hacking the file-target?
>
> No, I'm pretty sure no one is working on it.
>
> > If not, I want to hack it to add support reading some file-formats
> > (i.e. bmp, tga, pcx).
>
> Go ahead, it would be good.
>
> Semantics wise, you should load the file at init time, & determine the
> properties (width, height, depth). Then make the CheckMode primitive
> set any GGI_AUTO values to the same as the file, and make the SetMode
> refuse any mode that doesn't match the file (unless you want to
> support scaling/depth conversion... :->).
>
> Make all write primitives (putpixel, drawline, etc) fail, and only
> support the read primitives (you will only need GetPixel_NC to get an
> initial prototype working).
>
> Hope that helps.
Yes, THX! I will do so.
Christoph Egger
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