Re: [AD] Issues with iPhone native image loader

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On 13 Apr 2010, at 13:50 , Trent Gamblin wrote:
> First, it seems that the loader cannot load paletted 8 bit png files. I have
> an example that does not load if anyone wants to try it. This I did not
> investigate, but it might be nice to support indexed images.

Yes, it will be. I'll see what I can find (no promises though).

> Second, I get a lot of error messages saying that UIImage and NSConcreteData
> objects are leaking when loading images, because an autorelease pool isn't
> set up. I'm not too familiar with programming on these systems, so as a fix
> I simply wrapped the loading function with an autorelease pool, which quieted
> the warnings/errors. That patch is attached.

That should be fine (although I didn't actually check your patch). A more proper thing to do might be to release the allocated objects instead, but this should work too.

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