Scream like a girl

I’m suprised this hasn’t been flagged.
Please prepare yourself, then follow the link
“ROOL CVS Entry”: https://www.riscosopen.org/viewer/revisions/logs?ident=1389218023-527585.html

Maybe it’s just me who regards this as a major piece of work, but thankyou so much for this update :-D

Maybe it’s just me who regards this as a major piece of work, but thankyou so much for this update

Indeed, one of the items justifying the “I wouldn’t use RO5 because it doesn’t do ‘X’ and RO6 does” comments just dropped off the list. (Along with the BMP conversion)

Yes, who is this silent hero who keeps doing great work in the sources and not revealing him/herself? I suspect Sprow. I’ll just call him/her “elf”. Great work, elf!

I screamed like a girl and the cats disappeared. Maybe I was too convincing? ;-)

Seriously though, if we can get this linked in to OvationPro, it’ll be a great way to have multi-OS documents with a common compressed lossless image format that both platforms can cope with!

<squeeeeeeeee!!!!>

Yes, who is this silent hero who keeps doing great work in the sources and not revealing him/herself? I suspect Sprow.

Well https://www.riscosopen.org/viewer/view/mixed/RiscOS/Sources/Apps/ChangeFSI/source/ChangeFSI shows it was committed by Sprow, but I know he commits other people work as well as his own. So the evidence is inconclusive!

Thanks anyway to however it was.

This is terrific news. The next step is surely to have !Paint accept open requests for PNG/BMP when it is running, and use ChangeFSI to convert to sprite as a mid-step. Then use ChangeFSI the other way to save as JPEG from Paint. Unfortunately, I guess that would then need an alpha-aware !Paint…

one of the items justifying the “I wouldn’t use RO5 because it doesn’t do ‘X’ and RO6 does” comments just dropped off the list.

Not really. This is only in ChangeFSI, not builtin to the OS and supported by all the applications.

Still good progress though :-)

Great news and well done to the mysterious coder. Now it just needs to go into a module so it can be generally used.

It can still be generally used via the CLI, NewsUK uses it to convert the .jpg’s/gif’s and now png’s :-D to sprites.
The CLI options are fairly comprehensive.
There are only occasional issues with the image translation for me and I’m leaning towards an issue with my code somewhere having issues downloading the images very occasionally, rather than ChangeFSI.
My suspect is that I’m getting gzip’ed images, even though I explicitly ask for uncompressed ones (I get the same issue sometimes with WeatherUK)