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DUGL Viewer 0.4 prerelease (Announce)

posted by travolter, 15.08.2011, 13:12

> > >
> > > 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.
3 secs is a lot of time!!! serious. The feeling is totally different if you have to wait or the image is loaded progressively.
* for comic reading its not an bad feature.. you can start reading the first lines without need to wait the 3 secs :)

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