Re: TIFFRpresentation problem

[Fred Kiefer]

Vaisburd, Haim wrote:
> Fred Kiefer wrote: 
> 
>> Half Activist wrote:
> 
>>>     i wrote a little application, that locks focus on an NSImage, 
>>> draws to it, then unlock the focus.
>>>     I then try to get the TIFFRepresentation data, but it always 
>>> returns nil.
> 
>> This currently is a limitation of GNUstep.
> 
> I'm among the ones who would be very pleased to get this working.
> 
> 
>> Should we create bitmap representations for images as well and draw
> into them
>> or allow to grap the content of a cached image representation and
> return it as tiff?
>> The later may not be to hard to implement.
> 
> What would be the difference for the user? I do not know internals well
> enough
> to make an opinion, my own attitude is to strive for clarity and use the
> most
> straigtforward approach.
> 
> It would be really great to have
>  [NSBitmapImageRep -representationUsingType:properties:] also working,
> at least for JPEG.
> 

Sorry, I don't want to sound negative, but there are a lot of bits
missing in GNUstep that would be great to have. Contributions are more
than welcome.

Fred