[drats_users] Picture crash

[Dan Smith]

> Now I can't break it.  I sent the picture once at 16 KB and I think
> I got 2 retries at the beginning.  So I improved the picture
> quality, and sent it at 20 KB, and I did not see retries.  So I
> tried sending it as 640x480 with a little more compression to make
> it a 40 KB file, and as far as I can tell looking at the debug log,
> it went without any retries.

Propagation conditions improving, perhaps?

> I do have lots and lots of ONLINE messages in both chat windows.

Yep, I've got that fixed for the next time around.

> What does the message while it's transferring that says (Total 11B)
> mean?

That's the total amount sent through the pipe thus far.  It's
interesting for me, and for socket connections but probably not too
interesting in the normal case.  It also gives you an idea of some of
the compression-related speedup.

> One probable bug.  If I remotely ask for a picture, I don't get to 
> resize it.  I had to stop the transfer of the 1M file.

Yep, there's no feasible way to do that over 900 baud.  For the
picture tool to work the way it does, it has to have the original file
to work with.

I suppose I could allow you to set some defaults for the images if
requested remotely.  Like, if they're over 8KB, resize to 320x240 at
quality 8 and don't send if it's over 20KB.  I suppose I could also
let you specify a resolution, quality and a maximum size and ask the
remote to resize it and send if it's below the limit.  Or, a
resolution and a size and have it attempt to hit that size by varying
the quality.  Those are definitely on the "pipe dream" list though :)

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