Andy writes:
> > 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 ?
It has its own database, which includes the suffix information (which
/etc/magic doesn't). Looks like this :
type: image/gif
mime: image/gif
name: 2 '*.gif' # .gif is sometimes used for non-GIF images
magic: 3 0[5] == 'GIF87'
magic: 3 0[5] == 'GIF88' # exists ???
magic: 3 0[5] == 'GIF89'
type: image/jpeg
mime: image/jpeg
name: 2 '*.jpeg'
name: 2 '*.jpg'
name: 2 '*.jpe'
magic: 3 0[2] & 0xff 0xfe == 0xff 0xd8 && 6[4] == 'JFIF'
magic: 3 0[2] & 0xfe 0xff == 0xd8 0xff && 6[4] == 'JFIF'
type: image/tiff
mime: image/tiff
name: 3 '*.tiff'
name: 3 '*.tif'
magic: 3 0[4] == 'MM' 0x00 0x2a
magic: 3 0[4] == 'II' 0x2a 0x00
type: image/png
# MIME ???
name: 3 '*.png'
magic: 3 0[8] == 0x89 'PNG' 0x0d 0x0a 0x1a 0x0a
That could change somewhat for LibGFFD (the type/mime stuff), dunno yet.
> > 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.
Alright. I won't have much of time to work on it, but I should find
time to work on it regularly.
> Looks like we are striving to reinvent gnome :-) ...
Yeah I know... Why stop at X ? *grin*
Cheers,
__
\/ Andrew Apted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
