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DUGL Viewer 0.4 prerelease (Announce)

posted by FFK Homepage, 14.08.2011, 15:06

> >
> > Maybe this option to display the image while is being rendered in screen
> > instead wait for the full render to finish would be nice addition :)
> >
> > I think its better to show an image being rendered instead to wait with
> the
> > "freezed" previous screen until the new image appear. (People can be
> > confused and think that program is slow.. ) ;)
> >
> > my computer: P166mmx 32MB ram
>
> Don't laugh, this is a reasonable suggestion, even for modern computers.
> Even showing my aunts some pics on Facebook was fairly slow (on their AT&T
> DSL "Lite"). Perhaps the resolution was big, but it felt very reminiscent
> of old days using 2400bps modems and interlaced GIFs! ;-) Honestly,
> though, not sure what DUGL supports, but perhaps DOS386 can enlighten us,
> does PNG support interlacing? JPEG? BMP? (I think at least one of those
> also does.)
It's seems that both libjpeg and libpng allow to load images Progressively (not only for enterlaced images).
But as on my 5 years old system, it took only 3 seconds to load a huge jpeg image of ~ 11500x4500 I guess it's a very low priority modification.

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