>> Me for one. My app Pic-a-POD <http://www.troz.net/Pic-a-POD/> suffers >> greatly from this problem as more and more large images appear on the >> internet. At the moment I am forced to check for images with more than >> 4000 pixels on any side, and if so, I just have to show a notice >> saying that the image is too big to display. > > +1 > > Pic-a-POD sits on my desktop :-) > > "POD" web sites do change their format from time to time, though... > For instance, National Geographic leads to a "Picture is not in the > correct format" warning. > and Wikipedia furnishes regurlarly too big images!
Just to confirm this after some tests: - the problem is on Mac only - the height of the image does not seem to matter - my test image displayed correctly at 4090 x 3000 pixels (72 dpi) - my test image sometimes displayed correctly at 4091 x 3000 pixels (72 dpi) - my test image failed at 4095 x 3000 pixels (72 dpi) I have not yet done enough testing to tell whether the overall number of pixels or the dpi alters this slightly variable cut-off point. For Pic-a-POD, I intend to change "Can't display" message so it only shows if the width of the image is > 4000 and the platform is Mac. BTW, Dom there is now an update to Pic-a-POD that fixes the National Geographic problem. With regard to Wikipedia supplying enormous images, does anyone know a method for determining the size of a download before it starts? Once the download has begun the URLStatus gives the total size, but it would be really useful to get this before starting. I guess I can see whether I can get a directory listing but I doubt that would be permitted. The only other option I can think of is to start downloading invisibly, and stop after the first status report, suing that data to see whether the incoming image file is too large. Cheers, Sarah _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
