Re: Strange Gorm/ProjectCenter behaviour ... bug?

[MJ Ray]

<void_s@ihug.com.au> <void_s@ihug.com.au> wrote:
> The problem is in any editing field, when the escape key is pressed, 
> the program inputs the escape key into the field as a little 
> dotted-outline square. This takes up space in the string, is part of 
> the string, but neither backspace, nor the mouse selection, nor 
> delete will erase it.

This might be a bug with the text entry field from the way you describe it. 
I think that's a work in progress, so hopefully that will be corrected soon.

Sorry I can't give you a happier message.

Hello to the mailing list from the newsgroups once again!
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On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 03:01  Uhr, Andreas Hoeschler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have to convert TIFF --> JPG/GIF on the fly. The images stored in 
> the database are in TIFF. The application (GNUstep tool) is supposed 
> to return them in JPG/GIF or PNG format. On MacOSX I do
>
>       NSBitmapImageRep *imageRep = [NSBitmapImageRep 
> imageRepWithData:[_image
>       TIFFRepresentationUsingCompression:NSTIFFCompressionLZW factor:15.0]];
>       _jpgData = [[imageRep representationUsingType:NSJPEGFileType 
> properties:properties] retain];

Silly question:   why are you doing the TIFF-encoding step at all?   
After all, you're taking the image (initialized from a file?), 
converting that to TIFF, then getting an image (NSBitmapImageRep) again 
and then convering that to JPEG.

Why not get a JPEG-representation directly?  Just get the 
NSBitmapImageRep (from a file or wherever) and then get its 
JPEG-representation.

And if you determine you absolutely need to go via an intermediate 
TIFF-step (I can't see a good reason why), simply don't apply LZW 
compression to it.  BTW:  the compression factor is meaningless for LZW 
compression.

Marcel

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