.bmp? .jpeg? .png? .psd?

[Bizzeh]

.bmp? .jpeg? .png? .psd? which ones of these can be used in skins for winamp 3....

[-[WonderBlood]-]

hmmm.

.png works IF the user has pngload.wac :D

[Brennan]

PNG is the format of choice. Use it whenever possible.


--Brennan

[QHOBBES]

will we ever see support for .gif? is there a program that is free,
lite, and can convert to .gif to .png and vice-versa?

[Lucas]

gif has a maximum of 256 colors you don't want to use gif.

-L

[mc^^^^]

there once was thy time when thyself did not use png... but then thee saw thy light... thanx winamp 3...

[mc^^^^]

where the fuk didi i pull that from?:confused:?:confused:? im crazy:eek: :eek: :eek:

[schweitn]

Originally posted by Lucas
gif has a maximum of 256 colors you don't want to use gif.

-L

Just because you don't want to use gif because of certain limitations... don't tie everyone else's hands too. I have found through experience with software that thou shall not tell'eth the user what the can and cannot do'eth.

[s0be]

Originally posted by LyleWilson
is there a program that is free, lite, and can convert to .gif to .png and vice-versa?

Remember that compuserve has copyright patents or whatever they are on the gif format. for a piece of software to use gifs, they're supposed to pay a fee. (although didn't AOL buy cserve?)

PNG is almost identical to GIF, only it supports 16 bits of colors and 8 bits of transparency info. MNG is PNG with support for animated PNGs.

PNG is a much better format anyways.

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[Brennan]

Maybe someday someone will write a gifload.wac, but we won't be doing it or bundling it. It's 2001, 24-bit color is the way to go.


--Brennan

[Andy_Gump]

i was wondering what file types could be used to do a winamp 2.77 skin.

Thanx

[Lion King]

only windows bitmaps (bmp)

and of course txt and cur files, you asked for filetypes :)

[schweitn]

Originally posted by Brennan
Maybe someday someone will write a gifload.wac, but we won't be doing it or bundling it. It's 2001, 24-bit color is the way to go.


--Brennan

Hell, I'll write one...

I just need to know the interface I have to implement...

[Brennan]

OK, write a component and register an IMAGELOADER service. You need to derive from class svc_imageLoaderI (in studio/services/svc_imgload.h) and override the testHeader() and loadImage() methods. Test for the GIF header in testHeader, and in loadImage return all the pixels in 32-bit color (i.e. 1 byte each for alpha/red/green/blue.)

We're gonna put the jpgload and pngload source in a future SDK as well, which should simplify things a lot.


--Brennan