Hi Sven, > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:27 +0930, David Gowers wrote: > > What you are talking about is a hash function. There is a string > > hasher in GLib that should do what you want. > > The string hash function in GLib is not suitable for this job. Torsten > doesn't want to hash a string, he is asking for a checksum over image > data. Yes, I discovered that myself, since the string hasher would have difficulties with handling the binary data of the drawable passed on to the plugin. > You can use GChecksum which was added recently to GLib or you can use > the MD5 implementation in libgimpmath. This sounds nice, but I think it'll also needs something more since the whole image needs to be checksummed. As I see it, I'll probably have to do a checksum on every tile of the drawable and then sum them up again, right ? Torsten
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