nanogui: PNG support in Nano-X
Subject:
Re: PNG support in Nano-X
From:
Jordan Crouse ####@####.####
Date:
27 Nov 2000 19:56:58 -0000
Message-Id: <3A22BD29.226F7594@censoft.com>
I agree with your assesment. Actually, libpng isn't that bad, with the
shared version taking up 118K on the Ipaq, and the static
version only 141K.
Alex Holden wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > Using .JPG as an example, you can write a handler for PNG using the
> > third party libpng (available anywhere fine Open Source is provided), or
> > using .XPM as an example, you can write your own parser.
>
> I would recommend using libpng as the format is far from trivial to
> implement, and libpng is cleanly written, stable, and well maintained.
> It's fairly similar to libjpeg from the user API perspective. I very much
> doubt you'll need to hack the library itself at all to be able to use it,
> and since it'll be a config option, only those that need it have to get
> hold of it and build it for the target architecture (if the target
> architecture is the same as the development machine, the chances are that
> it's already installed anyway). The only disadvantage is that it's quite
> big.
>
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