[Cin] Plugins in integer or in float

[Phyllis Smith]

Maybe Andrew knows how to detect this -- if it is just a matter of looking
at each plugin to see if it looks like the word "float" is in effect for
the majority of variables, that is something I could do.  Or if Andrew has
another way?

On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 12:10 PM Andrea paz via Cin <
cin at lists.cinelerra-gg.org> wrote:

> From the source code we can tell if a plugin works in 32 bit float or
> 8/10 bit integer?
> I don't know, maybe by searching for the string "float" in the code or
> something like that? Or the normalized range (0-1.0) instead of the
> range (0-255), etc.
> It would be important to put this information in the manual because,
> for example, I know that Histogram works with integers and this can
> lead to clipping (with loss of information) in highlights or deep
> blacks. In contrast, Blue Banana works in floats.
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