Re: [vdagent-win PATCH 0/7] Rewrite image support and other patches

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> On 07/14/2017 01:14 PM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> >>
> >> On 07/06/2017 04:31 PM, 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Frediano,
> >>
> >> Is it possible for png support to use the high-level api,
> >> specifically png_read_png and png_write_png ?
> >>
> > 
> > What would be the advantage?
> > You still need to allocate structures and convert the image.
> 
> The advantage is simplicity.

Then propose a patch, does not look simpler to me.

> You still need to allocate structures.
> Perhaps image-conversions can be done via transforms.
> 
> Uri.
> 

Frediano
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