| From: | Dr Greg Perry |
| Date: | 30 Mar 2001 at 08:53:02 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] OS |
On 30-Mar-01 15:33:46 Michael Habermann wrote:
>Dear Dr,
>> Unfortunately the icon library is a sore point. In 3.1 programs could
>> access the icon image data and Opus could do neat things such as caching
>> the images, optimising colours & transparency etc but under 3.5 this was
>> taken away from us (and other programs) and it was made such that it is now
>> forbidden to access the actual image data and in fact the structures are
>> now private. The result of this is that we are forced to go through the
>> new top level OS 3.5 routines which are much slower. It seemed like a lack
>> of forethough and a totally retrograde step to take as far as we (and
>> others) were concerned. We argued strongly against this move but they
>> refused to listen to us. So take it up with those who stuffed it up, not
>> us.
>Geez, thank goodness I never installed that OS 3.5, let alone 3.9.
No:) Don't worry. We sugegst you should support the efforts with the new OS
development. There are actually very few problems with 3.5/3.9 and Opus it's
just that some on this list seem to get carried away and want the same argument
every three months! :)
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