[gtkada] Would a patch be useful (gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data)

[Thomas De Contes]

Le mercredi, 19 jan 2005, à 01:29 Europe/Paris, Jeffrey Creem a écrit :

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas De Contes" 
> <d.l.tDeContes at free.fr>
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>> if i'm right, what is the normal way to incorpore the data of the 
>> image
>> in our source code ?
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>> i made that :
>> http://tDeContes.hd.free.fr/miseADisposition/contributions/
>> mes%20programmes%20ada/outils/compil/figerstreams.adb
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>> will it be easy to use gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data with such a "constant
>> Stream_Element_Array" ?
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>> ps : for now this app is commented only in french,
>> does someone want to have it in english too ?
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> If I understand the french/ada correctly this code takes a file/stream 
> and turns it into "code" in the form of
> a stream element array.

yes, it's all right :-)

> This is useful at times but not for the gdk_pixbuf feature. The 
> problem is that this inline data is not
> a standard jpeg or png (or any real file format) but rather it a 
> custom representation of the image that is specific to Gdk.

ah

> If one had a file that was raw binary bytes of the form of a inline 
> gdk data then something like this might be useful.

in any case i made that for another things,

the main thing is to have a tool to convert image files into the gdk 
format :-)
how do you make that ?