Re: What about JPEG, GIF, etc.!!
From: Michael K. O'Neill (mikeathon2000_at_nospam.hotmail.com)
Date: 01/18/05
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:45:02 -0800
The patent on GIF (which was held by Unisys) expired about two years ago.
I think GDI+ supports both JPEG and GIF natively. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdicpp/GDIPlus/usingGDIPlus/usingimageencodersanddecoders.asp
Regards,
Mike
"William DePalo [MVP VC++]" <willd.no.spam@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:upUgTfO$EHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> "playwin" <playwin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:u3Px5DO$EHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Well that's might allright for MFC, But for NON-MFC inserting a COM
object
> > is a pain itself!(atleast to me).
>
> It is a pain for me, too. :-)
>
> Unfortunately if you don't want to use an existing component cast in COM
you
> have either to bite the bullet and write some (lots?) of code or buy a
> solution.
>
> I chose to make use of the free JPEG library of the Independent JPEG group
> available at http://www.ijg.org. It's nothing I can share, but if I
remember
> correctly created a memory "source" which copied the contents of a file to
> memory and passes it through their decompression engine. I copied the
output
> of the engine, a scan line at a time to a device independent bitmap and
then
> used plain vanilla GDI to display the bitmap. It wasn't horrendous task
but
> it wasn't a half-hour's work either.
>
> I didn't look at the GIF format because I wanted to use a "royalty free"
> format and I'm not sure of the legal issues with the patented GIF
> algorithms.
>
> Regards,
> Will
>
>
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