Re: bitmaps
- Posted by irv May 15, 2015
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how hard would it be to upgrade the bitmap-function(s) to 32 and even 64 bits?
While it's probably not super difficult, I think the language would be better off in the long term integrating with GIMP or a library which provides similar functionality. Otherwise, someone will just complain about lack of PNG/TIFF/JPG/GIF/MNG/etc support....
We need to step back and think about this rationally.
How many people will want to work with images without using any GUI library (GTK, wxWindows, Windows...)?
I submit that there are a few, - very few - and they will use ImageMagik or similar. Euphoria could never match those capabilities.
The rest of us will use a GUI, and AFAIK, all of those have the capability of loading, displaying, and resizing images of most types.
Any needs beyond those simple ones are probably best left to actual image editing programs, such as Gimp. Euphoria could never equal those capabilities either, and shouldn't try, since it is a programming language, not an image editor.
