yes i've tried a terminating 0. also tried generating the string with sprintf but to no avail. i'm using version 1.1.4. what is the value for the 'flags' supposed to be ? i.e the parasite is passed as a reference [parasite_name, flags, parasite_value]. Gunjan On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 04:42:18PM +0530, Gunjan Kapoor <gkapoor@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > thanks for the tip. however, the gimp-comment parasite does not seem to > > work with gifs. i've tried it with other file formats (apart from gifs) > > and it worked fine. what could be the problem. > > This is strange, the code is there (and seems to work here). However, > I just found (and fixed) a bug in that the gif plug-in expected a > zero-terminated string there at all times (still not right, I would expect > the comment to be an opaque binary object, if the format supports it). > > Did you include a terminating zero when setting gimp-comment? > > -- > -----==- | > ----==-- _ | > ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- > --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |e| > -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ > The choice of a GNU generation | > | > >
