Re: [boost] [gil] [announcement] New IO lib

From: John Femiani (JOHN.FEMIANI_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-22 16:43:42

Christian Hennig wrote:
> Hi there, over the past few months I have been working on a 
> new version of gil's io extension. In this release I've added 
> support for:
> 
> * more image formats, most importantly bit_aligned images ( 
> like 1bit images ),
> * reading of subimages like one row at a time for huge images,
> * reading image information, only.
> * having a unified interface for all sorts of devices, 
> subimages, and converter objects.
> 

Thanks for great extension!

Why do you take the top-left corner and size as a parameter to
read_image? Why not just use read_view?

-- John