On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 19:29:35 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Steinmaurer wrote:

>> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 18:55:40 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Steinmaurer wrote:
>> >> ...
>> >
>> > Though, we could investigate to make a freely available good
>> > (supporting different graphic formats) image viewing component
>> > IBO native data-aware?
>>
>>
>> Well, what would it take ?
>
> Ehm, what would it cost, or what would be needed to make
> such a component IBO native data-aware?

I was thinking of "how much would it cost to produce such a component". It
would be great if someone would create it, and provide it for free to the
community. If some money is necessary, well, this could be discussed
... (I really don't have any idea about "what - how much money/work - it
would take"). Maybe a trustware product.

> ...
> Just thoughts ;-).

I agree about your "thoughts".


Regards,
Aage J.

ps.
We have an application which scans reports/notifications and saves images
as (compressed) TIFF (in separate files). We have about a million of these
(and more than that on microfilm which I'd love to convert into
files). Now, we expect to recieve TIFFs from other (outside) sources. I
plan to store these in one or more databases (currently in alpha
stage). We use 3rd party components to view the images (Skyline Tools?) -
Svein Erling has done some work here. The short of it is: it must be more
convenient to have some IBO component instead of a bunch of DLLs!
Our TIFFs are black and white, single page, not-very-high
resolution. Other users may have different requirements - there is
evidently a lot of things to consider.