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I'm using the sample code supplied with ImageMan.Net and am getting intermittent troubles when loading certain kinds of garbage images.

In the LoadPagesWithAttributes, the line in question is this one:

 imImg = imDecoder.Load(progress)

 Sometimes this will hang indefinitely, while others it will only pause for ten seconds to a couple minutes.  For normal pictures, it takes a fraction of a second.

 Is there anyway to impose some sort of time limit on this method, so I can kill it if takes longer than x seconds?

Through heavy adaption of the Progress form (also included in the sample), I've been able to provide the user with the ability to either skip the loading of a picture or stop the process altogether.  This works for those situations where the picture just takes a very long time to return a null value.

 For situations where the picture hangs indefinitely at the "Load" method, however, the events in the DTI.ImageMan.ProcessEventHandler simply don't get a chance to fire.

 I've examined a sample GIF that is causing this type of problem and can't see anything about it's data structure that is overtly out of the ordinary, so I'm having a hard time desiging logic to filter out such invalid files at the preliminary stage of my program.  It meets the criteria (on the surface at least) of a GIF.

Hi,

We have such a corrupted GIF that you have sent us and are working on an update so the control will not hang when loading it. We should have that available sometime next week.