the verb readimg in jgtk can read image files, and similar verbs are provided in platimg on J6. You don't have to use gtkide in order to use the jgtk packacge.
Since the source code for image3 is not public, I guess it should be updated by its own authors. Or run it in J6 as suggested. Пнд, 31 Янв 2011, Charles Turner писал(а): > On Jan 31, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Devon McCormick wrote: > > > Any idea how hard it would be to build gtk equivalents of these basic > > functions? Does this make sense, i.e. would it help cross-platform > > portability? > > The little time I've spent with the code revealed it couldn't just be > recompiled for Mac-Intel. > > Most of these libraries should now be part of, or available as binary > packages, for Linux. The image3 library elected to link with static libraries > and object files, and there is a modified system of makefiles that build the > open-source libraries, as well as image3. This might be a bit of a hindrance > for re-building shared libraries that now use ./configure to execute > correctly across various platforms. > > The linking to static libraries and object files is likely in most cases now > unnecessary, and in the case of OSX, frowned upon by Apple. I'd assume that > GTK and Cocoa/Carbon duplicate most of this functionality. Likely Windows is > in the same state. > > The big decision would be whether it made more sense to dynamically link to a > universe of shared (and perhaps slightly different) native libraries, or > dynlink to a set of pre-built open-source shared (ie Linux/GTK) libraries, or > cherry pick the object files from the open-source libs to assemble image3 as > is currently done. > > As Mr. Iverson remarked, there would have to be several incarnations of the > image3 library, and I certainly don't have the platforms and experience to do > every one. Perhaps each major OS could choose to solve their revision however > they choose? Although I'm grateful for the GTK system on OSX, I'd elect to > make my efforts Mac-centric. > > HTH, Charles > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
