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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
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"chris" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Recently I wanted to take jpegs, (Windows) bitmaps and png images and
> use them as textures for OpenGL surfaces.  I could find no way of
> handling bitmaps in Ada out of the box.  Tonights task is to handle
> windows bitmaps!  Tomorrows task is to keep at the LibPng binding and
> implement a library to save/load images in the png, bitmap, jpeg formats
> and anything else.  One that is simple and portable.  I really need
> facilities for working with images!

You want the SDL thin bindings for SDL_Image.  Simple and portable
http://www.libsdl.org/

-CRM