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

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> 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.
> 

What would be the advantage?
You still need to allocate structures and convert the image.

Frediano