From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32587 invoked by alias); 12 Nov 2004 02:05:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 32494 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2004 02:05:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gencom001.gencom.us) (208.45.97.81) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 12 Nov 2004 02:05:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gencom001.gencom.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D61C6071; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:06:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from gencom001.gencom.us ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gencom001.gencom.us [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19473-08; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:06:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (home [67.171.201.213]) by gencom001.gencom.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id B376D6022; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:06:39 -0800 (PST) From: "D. Cooper Stevenson" Reply-To: cstevens@gencom.us Organization: GenCom To: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca Subject: Re: Grid To Hex Conversion Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 05:17:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: In-Reply-To: Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200411120207.23320.cstevens@gencom.us> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at gencom001 X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01403.txt.bz2 On Thursday 11 November 2004 23:59, you wrote: > I'm not certain which images you mean, but if you mean the JPEGs in > ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/temporary where I posted the Antarctic files, those are > from the Helsinki leg of my Summer 2003 vacation in Finland and Sweden. > The building in np020.jpg (which I'm guessing is the one you mean) is the > Tuomiokirkko - a Lutheran cathedral in Helsinki. Yes, those are they. They are beautiful! > I have a bunch more > photos (from the Swedish part of my trip) that I still have to scan, > organize, and write captions for, even though it's been more than a year > now. They're interesting! > What do you have in mind? What I was thinking of was rather than a > script, to modify the actual image-handling code in XConq more or less as > discussed on the list several weeks ago. Yes. Modifying Xconq to parse whole images seems a cleaner solution than an outside script. > That's going to involve some > careful data-structures work, though, and I won't be able to do it until I > find a nice block of time. XConq's image handling wasn't really designed > to handle images bigger than a hex, nor thousands of images, so some > reorganization will be needed to make it load large images and then cut > thousands of little chunks out of them, as Eric and I discussed > doing. Nothing insurmountable, but it won't be a trivial hack either. It's worth the wait. That is just incredible. > > I was also hoping that we'd have an official CVS again by the time I get a > chance to work on image mapping, since the current pattern of getting > updates as source tarballs makes it difficult for me to make modifications > if my modifications will require more development time than the time > between tarballs (hard to merge in new updates - that's part of the > problem CVS is supposed to solve). I hope we see this happen on SourceForge or Savannah. As you know, others have asked for this. > > If you're talking external script, then what you have in mind is probably > something different from what I was envisioning. Maybe it'd be easier to > do; so tell me, what do you imagine an "image mapping script" as actually > doing? What sort of input would it take and what sort of output would it > generate? And if we're going to be discussing technical details, should > we take this back onto the mailing list? Feel free to reply to and > quote this message on the list instead of directly to me, if you wish. Yeah, I agree that carefully crafting Xcong to handle images natively is the best way to go. -Coop