Adding an image attribute to tiff.c

Is this patch below of no use? Or should I send it to
another mailing list?

Thanks

adam


> I am dealing with some TIFF images from a vendor and
they have put some
> information I need in the TIFFTAG_HOSTCOMPUTER
attribute.
> 
> I couldn't seem to be able to access this from
PerlMagick, so I added the
> following lines to coders/tiff.c
> 
> 616a617,618
>>     if
(TIFFGetField(tiff,TIFFTAG_HOSTCOMPUTER,&text) == 1)
>>       (void)
SetImageAttribute(image,"Host_Computer",text);
> 1876a1879,1881
>>    
attribute=GetImageAttribute(image,"Host_Computer"
;);
>>     if (attribute != (const ImageAttribute *) NULL)
>>       (void)
TIFFSetField(tiff,TIFFTAG_HOSTCOMPUTER,attribute->value);
> 
> (I don't know if you have a standard naming policy, so
I just used
> Host_Computer)
> 
> Is this of any use to the source code?
> 
> Or is there another way of getting this information
from PerMagick? (Sorry I
> am not really a C programmer)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Adam
> 


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