Thank you this report, I'll patch checkjqtversion to use sminfo instead.

But the line should not reach if your versions of qt lib and qt add on
match.  I suspect you will get the same pop up message during running qtide.
On Apr 20, 2015 8:42 PM, "Devon McCormick" <[email protected]> wrote:

> This looks like the same problem I had about a week ago with "plot".  When
> I load 'jpeg' from a jconsole under emacs, it freezes or kills my session.
>
>    JVERSION
> Engine: j803/2014-10-19-11:11:11
> Library: 8.03.13
> Platform: Win 64
> Installer: J803 install
> InstallPath: d:/users/devonmcc/j64-803
>
> Anyway, I think I figured it out: I have to load qt if I want the good
> image readers and now the only thing that kills me is the penultimate
> "checkjqtversion '' " line.  I fixed this by changing the last line of that
> to this:
>
> if. IFQT do. wdinfo 'JQt';msg else. smoutput msg end.
>
> Thanks for everyone's help.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:12 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > You have not told us your JVERSION or other system details, so that I
> have
> > no idea why Qt did not work for you.  If Qt is available and you got
> enough
> > ram, I suspect decoding a MB jpeg will only take well less than 1 second,
> > as Raul had witnessed.
> > ​For the size of file with which I typically deal - nominally 20 MB
> (5472 x
> > 3648 pixel pictures​) - it took about 5 hours to read one image.  I'm
> > looking to do better than this by a factor of 1000.  I'll take a look at
> > the pure J approach to get an idea if this is feasible.
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:41 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I made a patch to accept both APP0 and APP1, but did not attempt
> > > to process any APP1 specific tags. That said, szies of jpeg from
> > > DC or mobile phones are typically a few MB. It may take many
> > > hours to decode with pure J if Qt is unavailable.
> > >
> > > Вс, 19 апр 2015, Raul Miller написал(а):
> > > > Oh, yeah... I was just reading about that the other day:
> > > >
> > > >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_File_Interchange_Format#Compatibility
> > > >
> > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#JPEG_files
> > > >
> > > > http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/JPEG#Portability
> > > >
> > > > But then I got bogged down in the details of the huffman coding and
> > never
> > > > really did get around to figuring out anything that might be useful
> for
> > > > decoding the APP1 stuff that cameras tend to emit.
> > > >
> > > > It might be interesting, though, to take a look at one of these files
> > and
> > > > figure out at least enough of what they are doing to figure out how
> to
> > > make
> > > > the readjpeg code happy.
> > > >
> > > > But without an example to work from, I useful progress might be
> > > difficult.
> > > > Everything I read suggests that jpeg is not so much a standard as a
> > bunch
> > > > of slightly incompatible standards with ad-hoc practices that tend to
> > > work
> > > > but which necessarily do things outside the scope of the standards.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Raul
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 8:22 PM, bill lam <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I think isjpeg checked for APP0 marker (JFIF -: 74 70 73 70 {a.)
> > > > > > http://www.fileformat.info/format/jpeg/egff.htm
> > > > >
> > > > > Apparently your jpeg use APP1 instead. (Exif -: 69 120 105
> > > > > 102{a.) which pure J jpeg decoder does not support.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyways I guess Qt should be capable of handling all these formats.
> > > > > On Apr 20, 2015 7:35 AM, "Devon McCormick" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Here is my kluge to accommodate the header my .jpgs have:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > isJpeg0_jjpeg_=: 4 : 0
> > > > > >    *./ +./x +./ . = 0 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 { a.&i.^:(2=3!:0) 11{.y
> > > > > > )
> > > > > > isJpeg_jjpeg_=: (255 216 255 224 74 70 73 70 0,:255 216 255 225
> 69
> > > 120
> > > > > 105
> > > > > > 102 0)&isJpeg0_jjpeg_
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The imagemagick idea is no good - I'm dealing w/hundreds of files
> > > per day
> > > > > > and have a nice J process that was working well w/.jpgs until the
> > > attempt
> > > > > > to move to J8 broke it.  I may have to go back to the old,
> > > unsupported
> > > > > > methods.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 6:38 PM, bill lam <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Please provide details how it failed to detect a vaild jpeg
> file,
> > > eg
> > > > > > which
> > > > > > > 9 bytes it read and what should be the 11 bytes.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > jpeg addon should automatically use Qt if available. Otherwise
> it
> > > use
> > > > > > pure
> > > > > > > J scripts.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > You could also use platimg or image3 addons of J602, however
> they
> > > are
> > > > > no
> > > > > > > longer maintained.
> > > > > > > On Apr 20, 2015 3:26 AM, "Devon McCormick" <[email protected]
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > All -
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I find my efforts to move fully onto J8 stymied by the
> > inadequate
> > > > > > support
> > > > > > > > for .JPG image files in the  jpeg addon.  When I attempt to
> > read
> > > a
> > > > > > valid
> > > > > > > > file that can be read properly by at least 2 other
> > applications,
> > > I
> > > > > get
> > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > > error "invalid JPEG file".  The proximate cause of this error
> > is
> > > a
> > > > > zero
> > > > > > > > returned by "isJpeg" which is checking for 9 of the first 11
> > > bytes of
> > > > > > my
> > > > > > > > file to have specific values.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I can kluge this to accept the headers of the files it's
> > > currently
> > > > > > > > rejecting but, in any case, this version of "readjpeg" is
> > > > > > excruciatingly
> > > > > > > > slow: it takes about 30 seconds to read in a file that's well
> > > under
> > > > > > 300K.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Does anyone have any ideas for alternatives to the existing
> J8
> > > jpeg
> > > > > > > > reader?  I'd prefer not to continue to use the old J7
> gtk-based
> > > ones
> > > > > > but
> > > > > > > > see no other way for now.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Devon
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > --
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