Hi !
> > Even better: We make a "smart" module that tries to guess the image-type.
> > It will then try to load the corresponding handler (using the equivalent
> Perhaps I should assimilate my "LibDataType" library into GGI, under a
> new name like LibGFFD (generic file format detection). Using suffixes
> and magic numbers, it can recognise over 400 file formats,
This sounds good. Will it use the /etc/magic database, or its internal
methods ?
> Using LibGFFD, this new picture library could detect the filetype, and
> then look it up in the gpf.conf file to find which DLL to load to
> handle the image.
> Any interest in this approach ?
Yeah - sounds good.
Looks like we are striving to reinvent gnome :-) ...
CU, ANdy
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