Design ideas about iterators

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:47, Patrick Julien wrote:
> > > To store 16 bits use two quantum...
> > > One RGBA pixel four (or eight) quantum.
> >
> > hum, yes but if we use two quantum to do a quantum16, we will have to
> > write a brand new colorstrategy, but if we use template, we can share
> > some code between colors strategy.
>
> That is an incorrect assumption.  What you need is for the channel depth to
> be a property of the paint device instead of a compile time option.
>

Shouldn't channel depth be a property of the image type -- and the image type 
a property of the channel depth? (On a related note -- I really want to make 
Krita flexible enough that it is possible to have layers of different image 
types in the same image.)
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