Re: Implementation of PNG 'Get Count' and indexed reads...

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Max TenEyck Woodbury  wrote:
> > > These are currently returning 'not implemented'.
> > >
> > > Would it make sense to have 'GetCount' always return '1' and have the
> > > indexed read simply read in the whole thing?
> >
> > Looks like you don't understand what those APIs do. What's that 'the whole
> > thing'?
>
> Yes, it's the simplest way to stub the whole sequence into doing
> something useful.  When someone wants to get fancy, they can build a
> vector of blocks, but that is much more work.  Definitely NOT great, but
> better than nothing, which is what we have now.
>
> 'The whole thing' is the entire image in one swallow.

Then you need to investigate what should be returned and in which format,
probably write some tests, read some docs.