Hi Glenn, This answer has nothing to do with gimp, but as the author of the GtkImageViewer widget who has dealt with a similar problem - the display of 600MB pbm images - I thought I would tell you about my solution. The solution only works for uncompressed images. I did not load the whole image into memory at all, but used the view_changed signal callback of the GtkImageViewer for fetching a rectangle of data from the disk which is then immediately displayed. Zoomed out data was created on the fly as well by reading from the disk and downscaling in one go. Even smooth scrolling worked surprisingly fast. There is a small delay as the disk is accessed, but it is a lot less annoying then the swapping and paging that will take place if you try to read the whole image at once into memory. Hope this helps. If you want to hear more about this solution, perhaps we should move the discussion to gtk-app or privately, as it has nothing to do with gimp. Regards, Dov _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
