From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <00bb01c3e06c$af284e90$7e8b58db@laptop> From: "Chris Hollis-Locke" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <7bf5f874e27e417c1dd15cf69da64c77@vitanuova.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] always go for overkill, err vismon MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:16:43 +1300 Topicbox-Message-UUID: bd13b40a-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [9fans] always go for overkill, err vismon > before he left, chris locke did quite a nice image viewer under > inferno that allowed viewing of arbitrarily large images (a 22MB jpg > aerial view of baghdad was one example); unfortunately it was never > completely finished. > Story of my life! The problem was that I was trying to standardise the interface for all the Inferno image conversion modules. I wasn't happy with how the interface was looking and didn't want it to become part of the main Inferno system. It may be possible to make it tidier with John Firth's limbo changes. At the time I was leaning towards not having a generic interface but instead a 'pattern' so each converter had its own specific interface but the code to use it would be very similar. If people are interested it could be released as a separate app. The JPEG converter fixed several bugs that both the p9 and inferno converters suffered, did progressive mode properly etc. VN were paying me at the time so I wouldn't release it without their permission. Rog has access to the code (over to you my friend!). Chris.