Lubomir wrote:

FYI - we just posted a 55 minute Flash presentation regarding GIL. You may find watching it more convenient than reading the tutorial.

Wow! The presentation was very informative and easy to understand. I agree with Andy, however, about locators being renamed cursors. That said... I haven't been following the GIL discussions on the mailing list, nor have I had the chance to look at the source code and try writing code in it. That said, I feel like I could start processing images in about half an hour and I don't know anything about image transformations! The presentation keeps comparing GIL to the STL and this is true. Knowing how STL works helped me understand the GIL concepts. I would really like to see this library in the next version of the standard, but I believe it is too late for C++0x. It might not be too late for TR2, and by getting GIL reviewed and in Boost (and considering it is part of the Adobe open source), having a reference implementation isn't a problem. Going on the standard alone, C++ is seen as a console/text based programming language, and this is the way that it is usually studied. Java is considered to be easier than C++ and has a standard graphical framework, allowing students to learn hte language from a graphical perspective. Now, if/when GIL becomes a part of the standard, imagine learning C++ and the first thing you do is use GIL to rotate a JPEG image, or crop it, or apply the gradient transform, ...! - Reece _________________________________________________________________ Try Live.com - your fast, personalized homepage with all the things you care about in one place. http://www.live.com/getstarted