[SDL] SDL_Image & .xcf files, does it work?

[Ulrich von Zadow]

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:11:36PM +0200, Stanis?aw Morgu? wrote:
>> loading of .xcf ( GIMP ) files does not work
> 
> Huh, I didn't even know SDL_image _claimed_ to support XCF until just now.
> However, the docs say:
> 
> XCF
>     GIMP native (.xcf) (XCF = eXperimental Computing Facility?)
> 
>     This format is always changing, and since there's no library
>     supplied by the GIMP project to load XCF, the loader may frequently
>     fail to load much of any image from an XCF file. It's better to load
>     this in GIMP and convert to a better supported image format.
> 
> 
> So I suppose I'm not surprised to hear it's _not_ working. :^)
> (GIMP folks haven't made a libxcf for everyone else to use?  Shame shame ;) )

The XCF format is intended as a format that changes with each release of
GIMP to accomodate new features of the software. It is not supposed to
be an exchange format.

Regards,

  Uli