Re: Support for large images

2002-09-26 Thread Tim Wentford
> > Any chance of making the 64k limit configurable in the desktop for those of > > us with "Grown-up" devices (you know what I mean 8^) ) or is it configurable > > and I missed it? > > No, that would create odd problems when that file gets sync'ed to a Palm. > > The right thing to do is to design

Re: Support for large images

2002-09-24 Thread Bill Janssen
> Any chance of making the 64k limit configurable in the desktop for those of > us with "Grown-up" devices (you know what I mean 8^) ) or is it configurable > and I missed it? No, that would create odd problems when that file gets sync'ed to a Palm. The right thing to do is to design and impleme

Re: Support for large images

2002-09-24 Thread Bill Janssen
> I could easily whip out a (GPL) program to do this, but it would be in VB, > and not very cross-platform. I'll look for some alternatives if that sounds > like a good idea to everyone. Actually, if you're a VB hacker, Python wouldn't be hard to learn. It's an interesting idea. I've talked wit

Re: Support for large images

2002-09-24 Thread Michael Nordström
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002, Tim Wentford wrote: > Any chance of making the 64k limit configurable in the desktop for those of > us with "Grown-up" devices Not possible, since you still have to put it in a Palm database (max record size is 64k). /Mike ___ pl

Re: Support for large images

2002-09-24 Thread Greg M
> I'm curious to see what you come up with though There's the Developer's Image Library at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openil/. I'll try incorporating this into a windows program. The function I'm looking at is ilBlit, which does all the standard blitting. This sdk looks like it will be able

Re: Support for large images

2002-09-24 Thread Tim Wentford
EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Support for large images > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002, Greg M wrote: > > I am not entirely clear with what is limiting Plucker to 64k images. > > An offscreen window can't be bigger

Re: Support for large images

2002-09-24 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I've heard other people say that, but I don't understand why. Here is the > part of the GPL that I believe actually specifically allows VB programs to > be considered GPL: I wasn't speaking specifically of letter of the license, I was speaking in the terms of the spirit of the license.

Re: Support for large images

2002-09-24 Thread Greg M
> It wouldn't really be GPL if it required VB to build it. I've heard other people say that, but I don't understand why. Here is the part of the GPL that I believe actually specifically allows VB programs to be considered GPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WritingFSWithNFLibs -Greg _

Re: Support for large images

2002-09-24 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> See http://www.plkr.org/list/2Q2000/0132.html for one suggestion I made a > very long time ago (the ascii picture is messed up by the mail archive > tool, though). Hand-edited to correct that. I'll be rearchiving these soon. d. ___ plucke

Re: Support for large images

2002-09-24 Thread Michael Nordström
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002, Greg M wrote: > I am not entirely clear with what is limiting Plucker to 64k images. An offscreen window can't be bigger than that. > Would it help to literally divide up the images into slices > that are all < 64k, then just display them on top of each other, line by > lin

Re: Support for large images

2002-09-24 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I could easily whip out a (GPL) program to do this, but it would be in VB, > and not very cross-platform. I'll look for some alternatives if that > sounds like a good idea to everyone. It wouldn't really be GPL if it required VB to build it. d.

Support for large images

2002-09-24 Thread Greg M
I am not entirely clear with what is limiting Plucker to 64k images. I assume that the problem is that the palm has a 16 bit processor (I really have no idea). Would it help to literally divide up the images into slices that are all < 64k, then just display them on top of each other, line by line?