Ali Majrashi Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 hello. i really waiting to use the multiple upload file with new vrsion but can ips add more images types to be display when you Attach it to topic like when you Attach gif jpeg the image will show in the topic as image automatically see but when you Attach bmp images it'll be like you Attach rar or any other files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggi Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 i believe you can do this yourself. All you have to do is change the mime-type of the extension in the acp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali Majrashi Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 i believe you can do this yourself. All you have to do is change the mime-type of the extension in the acp. i think this will allow you just to upload what i mean after uploading when some one preview the topic it's better to show image instate of Attachment file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Unfortunately I don't think this is easily possible. The reason is, we use the GD libraries to handle images uploaded (pretty much every PHP script does) and there are no BMP functions with the GD libraries. Only gif, jpg and png (and wbmp, which is not bmp). Thus we can't resize, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali Majrashi Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 can you also add options to use image magic to handle it i think image magic can handle many types more than jpeg,gif,png this can be optional in ACP like the gallery dose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 While we may add support for ImageMagick, I'm not sure if we'd build in support for BMP or not. MOST users would still be using GD (probably 95% or more) and the functionality of the software would need to be generally consistent between the two image handling methods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 I did not think any one used BMP any more its so huge of a file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrigan Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 BMP is for Windows BG's and that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke37 Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Fun fact: the bmp format is a mess, the y axis is inverted, relative to normal computer inverted axises! But only images with positive heights! Blame the IBM/MS failure OS devteam for this mess. Anyway, they are too big to bother to support here if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali Majrashi Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 sorry if i cause any confuse but i say bmp as example you can visit the image magick web site http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php and see how many formats they support more than GD Lib also it's better to support more types than just 3 types and if i want to use the gallery it's better to support most of the images now my gallery only support gif, jpg and png even i enable the image magick option all the bmp image not showing i really need this to be add to the gallery and the board Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieTang Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 sorry if i cause any confuse but i say bmp as example you can visit the image magick web site http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php and see how many formats they support more than GD Lib also it's better to support more types than just 3 types and if i want to use the gallery it's better to support most of the images now my gallery only support gif, jpg and png even i enable the image magick option all the bmp image not showing i really need this to be add to the gallery and the board All the images I ever see on the web are either gif, jpg, png, and the very rare bitmap... considering bitmaps are such a waste of space, I'm glad they aren't supported by many web applications these days. Really, gif, jpg, and pngs are what's supported by all web software these days, I see no reason to add more to the list IPB supports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 The problem, as I said before, is that even if imagemagick supports them, GD doesn't. Given that nearly all of our users use GD, probably more than 95%, it's not a good use of development time to support formats that almost no one will be able to use, and of those that are capable almost none of them WILL. I mean, who uploads a "Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format" image to a website anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W13 Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 don't bother with BMP's ... better to use PNG if you want to preserve quality. ... and JPG is great for compression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsey_ Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Why are people still using BMP's ? :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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