setImage in Adobe Director, alpha chanel

[Tschoatscho Kettl]

>>> Support PNG ?
>> ok for me, 32 bits with alpha channel, it's very flat !!
>
> Well, this is not 5 minutes task.
> I can estimate it up to 15 October.
>
> PAINTLIB that we use in Valentina claims to be able work with
> JPG, TIFF, PNG.
>
> We have try enable JPG and TIFF so far

TIFF should also support an alpha channel and even more than 3 color  
channels (i.e. CMYK for printing).
I also run the workaround using one castmember as an intermediate for  
all images and getMedia/setMedia.
However, it would be really great to have a lossless image  
compression getImage/setImage like PNG.
JPEG causes artefacts that are invisible for human eyes but can make  
an image unuasable as soon as you use its pixels.
 From my experience PNG should be much easier to handle as TIFF  
because it has stronger definition standards. With TIFF there are  
many "dialects".
For use with director we don't need the vector capabilities from PNG  
for getImage/setImage because a Director image value can not contain  
vector info.
It would be great to have support for different color depth (1 bit,  
8bit grayScale/with palette, 16 bit, 24 bit, 24 bit alpha = 32 bit)

Greets Tsch.

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