| ID: | 3271 |
| From: | ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:33:26 +0200 (CEST) |
| Subject: | [pcb-rnd] new: lesstif background image: png, jpg, gif (pixmap) |
Hi all, as part of the hidlib effort, I'm refactoring how the background image works. The original code is very limited and can be used to display a background image only, while the amount of code required is almost the same as for a generic "draw this pixmap here" solution. Since I have a lot of plans regarding to pixmaps in softare using hidlib, I decided to clean this up now, make the code generic and add all the pixmap HID APIs, way before the first stable release of the hidlib. As the first step, I've added a central pixmap infrastructure and I made modifications to all HIDs so the pixmap code is not specific to background picture anymore. What is more important now is that instead of each HID trying to load the pixmaps from file, the central infrastructure and import plugins will handle differenf formats. For today, this means the lesstif HID can now load pnm, png, jpeg and gif for background (using an import plugin that in turns uses libgd). It used to load only pnms. Later on I will switch over the gtk hid to use the same import infra instead of gdk for loading the images. Long term (not in this cycle) we will have a couple of new features based on pixmaps, including better support for breadboards/perfboards. Stay tuned, I will post about the new features when they happen. Best regards, Igor2
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