Eric Richards wrote: > William Squires wrote: > > >> As with any other design decision, you need to know what features and >> limitations you're willing to live with. Not only that, but you >> should ask yourself why you need to invent a new image format when >> there are already lots of image formats already. (i.e. what is it you >> wish to add to your format that none of the other formats support >> (well, if at all.)? And what features will you have to trade off to >> get it?) >> >> >> > Good points. > > Its not so much I want to make a new format, but mostly for knowledge. > > Then again making your own format could be useful, to some degree. > > Thanks > > One idea that I like is similar to the usage of the aforementioned PSD files. By which I mean you take a regular image file, then pack it into another file which also contains settings and whatever else you like. Then you could open that file with a different copy of the application and have your UI customizations, tool settings, and assorted whatnot all ready to go automagically.
Aside from that, which is almost no work at all, I don't think I'd have the patience to build my own format for much of anything. =) _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
