On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 14:17 +0100, Michael Drake wrote: > In article <1246279542.18148.312.ca...@duiker>, > John-Mark Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The most obvious solution to all of this is to make bitmaps completely > > opaque to the core and have them provide accessors/mutators for bitmap > > data in a defined format (namely: whatever the core speaks). The > > frontend can then store bitmap data in whatever format they like and the > > core can still access it as necessary. > > I think it's then harder to have the image decoders in the core, isn't it? > Every platform would need their own implementation.
No. That's the wholepoint of providing mechanisms to allow the core to read/write the image data *in a defined format*. J.
