16 BPC Image Type

[rebbur]

I need a way to render JUCE in 16bpc instead of 8bpc.
I once asked for this around 10 years ago, but at that time we decided it was not worth the effort. But now we do want to put in the time but i’m not quite sure if it is feasible/

Jules then mentioned to create our own ImageType, but i’m not sure yet how this should be done. Anyone has any idea or experience with this?

Request for 64 bits (16 bit per color channel) Image support

Hi Jules, Lately we've been using 64 bit png's in our app (for OpengGL UV mapping). I added a routine to the PNGFormat so that it can load 64 bit images. It's a custom routine i added so that i didn't have to include our own version of the png library, the 64 bit image is copied in our own Pixels container class. The thing is that i need to be able to draw thumbnails of those images in our juce components, so i could convert it back to 8 bit and draw it of course but i would like  keep it arou…