On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 13:44 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
> "Mark A. Nicolosi" <m.a.nicolosi_at_att.net> writes:
> > That makes perfect sense, thanks. Yeah, converting to an xpm does work.
> > Just out of curiosity why is the file closed and reopened if it isn't an
> > xpm? Couldn't that buffer be reused when testing if it's a png?
>
> Respond to the list please.
Sorry, didn't realize the mailing list sets the reply-to to that person.
Sorry to Mikhael, too.
> The file is opened and closed by the respective libraries.
>
> Fvwm just passes the filename to libxpm, then libxpm opens and reads
> the file. If that fails, Fvwm then passes the file to libpng.
>
> The only exception is when the file has an extension, then it passes
> the file to the corresponding library first, if that fails, it tries the
> other libraries.
>
> In no case does Fvwm read the file and buffer it anywhere.
Okay, maybe when I get some time, I'll download cvs and check it out.
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Mark A. Nicolosi <m.a.nicolosi_at_att.net>
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Received on Fri Jun 03 2005 - 12:56:02 BST