memory hogging...

[Ed Halley]

On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 02:49, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
> > We also may have an optional mode where the control points tab only uses
> > 1/2 scale images unless you (1) request full images with a toggle, or
> > (2) click the mouse or pan the image in either pane.
> 
> Not sure if this is a good idea, setting the points, and especially
> the auto picker *should* imho work an the full resolution images.
> 
> How about storing the images in memory as jpegs and only uncompress
> them when they are loaded into the control point picker?
>
> I agree that it's an important point to tackle. Still the solution
> shouldn't loose accuracy.

Just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting that we'd ever use less than full-
resolution for actual picking.  But half-res is enough to see what frames
are what, when you're flipping through the pairs.  Maybe it's an
unworkable idea for little benefit, but it's handy in some applications to
keep and show half-resolution images *while* loading full-resolution from
disk.

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