From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:41:18 +1000

Re: Direct Buffering was: Re: switching color depth

Garrett B writes:

>     Well say Im loading an image from a file. Whats the best way to get the
>  picture from the file to into a visual so I can blt it around? Just do ALOT of
>  ggiPutPixel's?

If it is a memory visual, and image-load speed is not a problem, then
yeah ggiPutPixel() is the easiest way.

A faster alternative it to build one whole line at a time, and then
ggiPutHLine() it.  There is only 4 cases to cover -- 1, 2, 3 or 4
bytes-per-pixel.  This is what flying-ggis does.

Cheers,
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