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[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 11/7/03 11:14 PM, Martin Kloss at martin.kloss at gmx.de wrote:

>> As I remember, problem is that Macromedia use some weird format...
>> And I have no access to e.g. MAC PICT format on windows...
> 
> Hmm, I thought that was only when using the "picture" property.
> The "image" property is something very different and should not
> return a PICT handle at all.

Aha, correct, Martin.

Then Image is problematic from point of view that I need draw into
GraphPort. This is not feature of DBMS in fact. :-)

And I really have no skills in drawing bitmpas...
So in the best case I will return to this issue after 2.0
 
> For reference a few mails from me to you:
> 
> At 20:51 16.09.03 +0300, you wrote:
>> I need say that we will not have member.picture syntax.
>> I think this is not fatal problem, because works simple member()
>> 
>> .picture have problems on Windows.
>> Hard problems. Thanks to Macromedia.
>> They return my on Windows NOT DIB, but MAC PICT :-(
>> Stupid.
> 
> Interesting, but I guess that's what the "picture" property
> was invented for, not to return the DIB, but a PICT on
> both platforms, so it's truly cross-platform. I think
> that Macromedia did this on purpose.
> 
> Today nobody uses "member().picture" anymore, because
> it's slow and not needed. The "member().image" property
> is fast and you can do lots of manipulations with it.
> So I would not worry about the "picture" property, in fact
> I think you can forget about it and for the future ONLY
> support "member()" and "member().image" and drop support
> for "member().picture".

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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