Re: SV: Re: SV: RE: Re: TortoiseIDiff suggestions

Hans-Emil Skogh wrote:
>>> I would like to go even further: Why don't we take the plunge and
>>> start distributing FreeImage with TortoiseSVN?
> ...
>>> As a bonus the whole question of extending TortoiseIDiff to support
>>> more image formats becomes the question of extending FreeImage to
>>> support more image formats. Everybody wins!
>> I like that idea. But we should keep using FreeImage optional. So I
>> suggest to keep the current CPicture class (the part that uses the
>> IPicture interface to show the most common image types) and use
>> FreeImage to show the rest.
>
> We can't keep FreeImage optional if we want to use the interfaces it
> provides for accessing raw-pixel-data.
>
> We *must* have something akin to FreeImage_GetBits() to be able to do
> efficient comparisons, there's just no way around that, and FreeImage
> provides that.

Ok, then I guess we have to ditch CPicture and create a new wrapper
class CFreeImage or something like that.

Stefan

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