On 9 Feb, Doug Alcorn wrote:
> Yes, dia depends on gtk+. However, the libs that gtk+ depend on _are_
> typically available on commercial Unixes. ImLib, on the other hand,
> has dependencies that would require the user to get still more
> libraries (as mentioned above). Plus, ImLib (while being programmer
> friendly) is fairly fat and slow in terms of image handling.
Yes, i agree with this.
> For simple image loading, scaling, and gradients I know of another
> library that is fast, small, and doesn't have any odd dependencies. I
> work on the devel team of the AfterStep window manager. We started
> with ImLib for the above mentioned functions. We got complaints on
> portability, so ended up writing the libasimage library to handle what
> we needed. It is fairly simple and has few dependancies (libXpm,
> LibJpeg and LibPNG). Without those dependencies the lib can still do
> image scaling and gradients. Also, libasimage is small enough to be
> installed in user disk space.
Aha, I think i might use this as a compile-time option. This should be
possible given the DiaImage abstraction layer.
> You can get it from ftp.afterstep.org. I am not sure if it comes
> packages seperately or not from the actual window manager. But if you
> are interested, I can make a standalone distribution of the library.
I didn't find it (at a quick look)...
/ Alex
