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This is the Imlib 2 library - a library that does load file loading and saving This is the Imlib 2 library - a library that does image file loading and
as well as rendering, manipulation etc. It also does ALL of these FAST and saving as well as rendering, manipulation, arbitrary polygon support, etc.
tries to be highly intelligent about doing it to make writing niaeve programs
that are still very fast.
This is an early stage of its release and thus is Imlib2 0.0.4 - there are It does ALL of these operations FAST. Imlib2 also tries to be highly
bugs that have to be worked out - primarily ones that might deal with network intelligent about doing them, so writing naive programs can be done
rendering, endianess and the lack of loaders. easily, without sacrificing speed.
The src/ directory contains the Imlib2 source itself This is a complete rewrite over the Imlib 1.x series. The architecture is
The loaders/ directory contains some sample loaders and savers (a loader both more modular, simple, and flexible. See index.html in the doc/ directory
loads and saves a certain format) for more information.
The test/ directory contains a test program you can compiel and run after
Imlib2 is installed (runt he test program in the test directory)
The libltdl/ direcotry contains the LGPL licensed source for libtool to enable
loadable module support on all platforms.
For examples of this library in use, seek:
Eterm http://www.eterm.org/ (CVS version only, currently)
feh http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/feh.html
geist http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/geist.html
A blurb about each of the directories:
debian/ Debian build files
demo/ Demo view program
doc/ Documentation for imlib2, primarily in html
filters/ Filter shared objects
libltdl/ Libtool LGPL-licensed loadable module support library source
loaders/ Imlib2's image loader-savers (jpg, png, etc)
src/ Imlib2 main source
test/ Test program(s)