Typo-o about the 16-bit/LUMINANCE_ALPHA part. Should read 'I'm NOT
terribly confident' which is why the code needs additional testing.

On 10/26/07, E. Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yea! The Leopard NDA is finally lifted.
>
> This is a submission for a new osg plugin, osgdb_ImageIO. This is the
> first piece of the puzzle that we need to get 64-bit support on OS X.
> This plugin is intended to partially replace the current osgdb_qt
> (classic Quicktime) plugin. There are many issues with the current
> osgdb_qt, but perhaps the biggest is that there are many APIs used in
> it that have been marked deprecated for awhile now and will not make
> it to 64-bit on OS X.
>
> ImageIO is Apple's (semi-)new (as of 10.4 Tiger) fundamental image
> framework that provides access to all image formats handled by the
> platform. This new osgdb_ImageIO plugin intends to replace all of
> osgdb_qt's image handling duties as well as introduce support to new
> image formats as they become available to the platform (e.g. JPEG2000,
> RAW, HDR, etc).
>
> osgdb_ImageIO does not replace osgdb_qt's movie handling capabilities.
> I envision that to be handled by a planned second plugin using Apple's
> semi-new (10.4 Tiger) QuickTimeKit framework, tentatively osgdb_QTKit.
> So this plugin is just the first step.
>
> Would you please add this to src/osgPlugins/ImageIO?
>
> Improvements over osgdb_qt plugin:
> - Supports istream and ostream
> - Supports a lot more image formats
> - ImageIO framework should be well supported from 10.4 to the future
> (which should include 64-bit and new/future image formats)
> - Doesn't require explicit initialization/close-out
> - (Hopefully) efficient...avoids the manual byte-by-byte manipulation
> of the old QuickTime plugin. Calls Apple's Accelerate framework when
> useful.
> - Seems to fix/avoid AutoreleasePool related leak warnings which I
> believe the current qt plugin triggers if not using Cocoa (i.e.
> actually having an autorelease pool created).
>
> Missing:
> - No movie file support (planning/expecting a separate QTKit plugin to
> handle that).
> - Need to update osgDB::Registry for new plugin
> - Need to update build system(s)
>
> Additional Notes:
> - The old Quicktime plugin will need to remain for both Windows users
> (who happen to use it) and pre-10.4 OS X versions. It will also need
> to remain for movies until we get a QTKit plugin written.
> - This plugin probably could use additional testing for
> 16-bit/LUMINANCE/ALPHA stuff. I'm terribly confident I understood what
> needs to happen in these cases so behavior could be different/broken
> compared to osgdb_qt.
>
>
> Once I figure out all the build system details, I'm proposing that for
> the next release of OSG, if building for OS X 10.4 or 10.5, the
> ImageIO plugin gets built and set as the default image handling
> plugin. For legacy 10.3 and Quicktime for Windows users, the existing
> osgdb_qt plugin should remain available. For now though, I wanted to
> make this piece of code available in case anybody has a pressing need
> to get 64-bit going soon.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
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