[MonoTouch] CGImageCreate?

[Ed Anuff]

Awesome, I'll try it out.  Thanks!

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> wrote:

> Hello Ed,
>
>      Please download:
>
> http://tirania.org/tmp/monotouch.dll
>
>     After backing up your
> /Developer/MonoTouch/usr/lib/mono/2.1/monotouch.dll, override it with this
> file.
>
>     You can now use CGDataProvider like this:
>
>  using (var image = new CGDataProvider (your_memory_block,
> size_of_block)){
> var image = new CGImage (...., provider, ...);
>  }
>
>      Let me know if there are any problems with it.
>
> On Nov 28, 2009, at 1:44 AM, Ed Anuff wrote:
>
> Hi Miguel, thanks for looking into this.  I've got an image decoder for an
> image format that UIImage doesn't support.  The image decoder returns a raw
> RGB byte array of the pixels.  I had hoped to use CGImageCreate to convert
> these into a CGImage and then a UIImage since CGImageCreate is very flexible
> in terms of the source data it can process.  The workaround I've implemented
> is to convert the image data into TIFF format since UIImages can be created
> from TIFF data and I found some fairly simple code for doing this (while
> TIFF is a complicated format because of all the options it supports, an
> uncompressed 24bit image can be stored by preprending a small header to the
> raw image data and then appending some minimal metadata at the end).
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello Ed,
>>
>>     Can you describe the scenario that requires these APIs?
>>
>>     I am trying to determine how I should expose these functions.
>>
>>
>> On Nov 27, 2009, at 5:16 PM, Ed Anuff wrote:
>>
>>  I can't find a binding for CGImageCreate.  Is there anyway to use this?
>>>  I'm not realy sure how to bind Core Foundation functions.  It looks like
>>> CGDataProvider isn't bound either, which CGImageCreate needs.  :(
>>>
>>> Ed
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>>
>>
>
>
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