Changing the default channel depth

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Monday 08 March 2004 13:14, Patrick Julien wrote:

>
> Maybe QUANTUM needs to be always 32 bit, no matter what the color channel
> depth is.
>

And what if QUANTUM needs to be raised to 64 bits -- to support the output 
from scanners, for instance?

> I don't want to have to define variables of different type depending on
> what channel you are working with.  That is just too much of a pain to use.

There must be some kind of a solution that doesn't demand shoehorning 
everthing from bitmaps to high-end slide scans into the same thing.

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