[Spice-devel] [vdagent-win PATCH 0/7] Rewrite image support and other patches

[Uri Lublin]

On 07/06/2017 04:31 PM, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> CxImage is used for image conversion for clipboard support.
> CxImage have currently some issue:
> - library is old and unsupported;
> - required an old libpng library.
> Currently the MingW binary we distribute due to some
> issue have PNG disabled (so no clipboard image support).
> Note that currently we support (before and after this patch)
> only BMP and PNG. PNG is required as the default agent format.
> However Windows programs wants to have BMP (specifically DIB)
> in the clipboard.
> This patch remove CxImage and use directly libpng (BMP is
> supported directly by Windows APIs).
> Tested with various formats and the compiled agent with a
> Linux client.
> The main concern is actually the possible problem to
> support some weird/old BMP file formats.


Hi Frediano,

Is it possible for png support to use the high-level api,
specifically png_read_png and png_write_png ?

Thanks,
     Uri.