[Gdal-dev] Create method

[Julien Demaria]

At 16:28 24/09/2004, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>Julien Demaria wrote:
>>Frank,
>>I think this is incompatible with the GDAL API, but would it be possible 
>>(theoritically) to provide a "limited write only" approach in which we 
>>give all the file format informations (colortable, geolocation, nodata, 
>>...) only one time at the create call (a CreateSimple method ?), and 
>>allow only to write in sequential line-by-line way ?
>>This approach could be implemented easily for many more drivers than the 
>>standard Create approach, isn't it ?
>
>Julien,
>
>Yes, I can see that this might be desirable, but I'm not too keen on yet
>another way of creating files.  Note, that you can provide a virtual file
>as input which provides callbacks to get the image data if you want to
>avoiding having a copy of the imagery already exist somewhere.

good solution... have you got a simple example code which do that, if 
possible ?

Thanks in advance,

Julien