REVOLUTION - trouble with pictures. Help please.

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 7/31/06 8:31 PM, "Trevor DeVore" <lists at mangomultimedia.com> wrote:

>>> FYI - "imageData" is the visual representation of the image on
>>> screen.  The "text" of an image is the actual image format data (png,
>>> jpeg, etc.).  You probably want to store the image format data as
>>> opposed to the imageData.
>> 
>> We do not store format of picture. We just store JPG or TIFF itself
>> and all
>> other ADKs. Because it is possible recognize type of picture by its
>> data.
> 
> OK, if you are trying to store JPG data (or PNG, etc.) then you need
> to get the text of the image.  The imageData is NOT the raw image
> data.  It stores eachs pixels data as it is displayed on screen.
> Each pixel being represented by 4 bytes (Alpha Red Green Blue).

Then it sounds just like a screen bitmap,
    i.e. DIB for window
    and PICT for MAC

Actually all other IDEs do the same: RB, Director, ..
 
> put the text of img "pic" into dataPic

I still do not see 

* why you think we need this text

* if data are in bitmap, then how it can be jpg or png


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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