On Tuesday 30 October 2001 4:44 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | More powerful libraries like Qt could probably act on most input graphics > | formats direct. I haven't given much thought to the details. > > But xforms also has support for this?
Not that I know of. xforms can display a pixmap. It can also load a pixmap from file, but Baruch decided to use the Xpm library to do this loading. The src/graphics directory is xforms-independent. Neither xforms nor the Xpm library can scale a pixmap. Nor can either create a pixmap from other graphics formats. That's why Baruch originally decided to use ImageMagick's convert to convert from xyz format to xpm, but he ultimately changed this hard-coding so that it is controlled by the converter scheme. I've just run this conversion process as a forked-child, so that LyX can get on with life whilst the conversion is taking place. Currently, I've regressed this last bit because the conversion is hard-coded once again, but it'd be nice to be able to use the converter class to create the conversion script automatically. Qt can do rather more than either of these libraries (xforms, Xpm) and appears to be able to load graphics asynchronously, so I guess that the challenge is to use the native GUI to do as much as possible rather than do this using external converters. I just thought that this was a nice little stand-alone problem that would eventually filter back into LyX. Angus
