Re: [NSImage imagedNamed:] and application startup tuning

2003-03-18 Thread Michael Hanni
Hi Fred, > Loading the tiff images is so slow because on systems where WRaster is > available GNUstep first tries all the formats provided by WRaster before > looking for TIFF files. Switching this order around, i.e. looking first > for '.tiff', should result in the same speedup. Please test th

Re: [NSImage imagedNamed:] and application startup tuning

2003-03-18 Thread Michael Hanni
Hi Fred, --- Fred Kiefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure if this is the best way to get a better speed at startup. There > is even one small drawback, we may on some system have to use the > extension of '.tif' if we ever port GNUstep to such a dump platform. So > I had to think up some

Re: [NSImage imagedNamed:] and application startup tuning

2003-03-18 Thread Fred Kiefer
Michael Hanni wrote: [NSImage imageNamed:] provides a very easy way to grab images. You can simply provide a name, minus even an extension, and NSImage will find your image. However, this can be more intensive than required when you already know your image's extension. For example, when you strace

[NSImage imagedNamed:] and application startup tuning

2003-03-17 Thread Michael Hanni
Hi, [NSImage imageNamed:] provides a very easy way to grab images. You can simply provide a name, minus even an extension, and NSImage will find your image. However, this can be more intensive than required when you already know your image's extension. For example, when you strace a gnustep app ri