Efika 5200B Project Reggae on Efika in category Multimedia proposed by Grzegorz Kraszewski on 21st February 2006 (accepted on 20th March 2006) [View Full Project]

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	GIF support still not finished posted by Grzegorz Kraszewski on 13th June 2007 It turned out, splitting GIF decoding into 5 classes was a bad design decision. The problem was the amount of sideband data needed to be transferred between classes. Also some of the data had to be synchronous with image data, which is not possible with attribute passing. Then image data stream format has be changed to some complex one containing data containers and control containers. I've decided to sacrify code reusability for design simplicity. I've dropped the approach then, and came back to the traditional demuxer/decoder model. The demultiplexer is ready (as it was earlier), and decoder now has all processing stages before LZW decompression. Now I'm integrating the code from abandoned lzw.decompressor into gif.decoder. Then only image synthesizer module is left, but it is not difficult, at least for 87a version.