[interfacekit] Re: BPicture

>While working on BPicture I started implementing TPicture, which is a
>private class which does the actual Play() of a BPicture (it reads the data
>block piece by piece, and calls the appropriate callback). The original
>TPicture not only reads, but also writes (has instructions to build BPicture
>data).
>While this has no use for BPicture (it never builds data, this is done on
>the AppServer, and later "downloaded" when needed), it could be useful for
>picture translator add-ons, since they won't need to make a
>BWindow/BView/BPicture to build the data block.
>What do you think, implement it? It won't cost much time, but it adds extra
>testing :P.
IMHO it would probably be a good idea to go ahead and create it. I can then 
steal it for the app_server. :P

>Also, are there AppServer messages scheduled yet for BPicture, as I need to
>be able to upload(after unarchiving/unflattening) and download(for
>playing/archiving/flattening) BPicture data :).
>
>Marc Flerackers (mflerackers@xxxxxxxxxx)
>Software Engineer
>ANDROME NV
Haven't put them in ServerProtocol.h yet, but just because BPicture support 
isn't in prototype #7. I do plan on adding stuff like that once I get it out 
the door and get back to the final spec writing stage before I start writing 
the server.

--DW

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