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[ANN] PNG Utilities Plugin v1.8 (Universal Binary)

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Subject: [ANN] PNG Utilities Plugin v1.8 (Universal Binary)
From: Frank Condello <developer at chaoticbox dot com>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:00:21 -0400
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PNG Utilities is an open source plugin for REALbasic 5.5 and greater that allows developers to easily load and save PNG format images with or without transparency information. Methods are also provided to deal with strings of binary PNG data, which is ideal when storing or retrieving images from databases, virtual volumes, or custom packages such as zip archives.

Version 1.8 adds support for Mac OS X Universal Binary targets and includes numerous bugfixes and optimizations for all supported platforms. A "Picture.HasMask As Boolean" property has also been added which can be used to determine whether an imported PNG image contained an alpha channel or transparency index. NOTE: The 1.8 final release fixes the Mac Intel crashes and Win32 one-pixel-off issues present during the 1.8 beta cycle - these beta fixes are not listed in the final version history however.

PNG Utilities is compatible with Mac OS Classic/Carbon, Mac OS X PowerPC, Mac OS X Intel, Windows, and Linux targets. Downloads and full documentation available are here: <http:// developer.chaoticbox.com/realbasic.php?tab=plugins#pngutilities>

Big thanks to all the beta testers - especially the Mac Intel folks!

Frank.
<http://developer.chaoticbox.com/>
<http://macgameblog.com/>


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