[crossfire] Mac client - status

[Mark Wedel]

Amorya North wrote:

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      Ah, ok - so I can store a pointer to an NSImage in the cache entry?  
     
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      That would help a lot. I was wondering where I'd be able to do the  
     
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      conversion.
     
     
  You might want to double check the gtk code/image.c - I'm not sure if your 
client would need to store anything else.  At least for the gtk client, since it 
stored multiple image entries (one for the image, one for the mask, as well as 
one for inventory display vs map).  But if one pointer conveys all the data you 
need, then I think that should work.

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      As for scaling, it's dead easy in Cocoa. A single line of code will  
     
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      scale the map window's contents _after_ it's been composited. So I  
     
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      won't allow scaling of images to be stored - it's just not needed!
     
     
  If performance is acceptable doing it that way, that is fine.  It was just 
generally a lot more efficient to scale day the images when created so you are 
moving fewer bits around than moving around the full size images and then 
scaling down the entire map display - if the scale down is done in software, 
probably can't be done fast enough during gameplay.

  that said, there is no requirement that scaling of the data even be allowed.