On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:43:23 +1000
Mat Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> g'day Mattias,
>
> thanks for that detailed explanation of the details of TLazIntfImage and
> FPImage !
>
> that has highlighted another important issue that i was not aware of:
> our code also makes heavy use of palette operations to reduce images to
> very compact grayscales - so i'll have to think through the lack of them
> in FPImage very carefully.
No. FPImage supports palettes. The LCL part does not support them yet.
> there's a nice irony here: palettes were
> developed (in part) because early PC's had very limited (graphics)
> memory - so palettes are an anachronism in this day of 256M video cards
> - but an anachronism that is essential to our work.
>
> as far as 64 bit Lazarus is concerned, i wasn't expecting it to work
> now, but it's clearly going to happen eventually - in contrast to Delphi
> 64.
Sure. AFAIK fpc already works on 64 bit.
Mattias
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