Re: [vdagent-win RFC PATCH 0/5] Replace CxImage code

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On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:32:40AM +0000, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> CxImage is used for image conversion for clipboard support.
> CxImage have currently some issue:
> - library is old and unsupported;
> - required an old libpng library.
> Currently the MingW binary we distribute due to some
> issue have PNG disabled (so no clipboard image support).
> Note that currently we support (before and after this patch)
> only BMP and PNG. PNG is required as the default agent format.
> However Windows programs wants to have BMP (specifically DIB)
> in the clipboard.
> This patch remove CxImage and use directly libpng (BMP is
> supported directly by Windows APIs).
> Tested with various formats and the compiled agent with a
> Linux client.
> The main concern is actually the possible problem to
> support some weird/old BMP file formats.

Is there any sense in using gdk-pixbuf for image processing to
enable support for formats beyond bmp/png ?  


Regards,
Daniel
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