Re: [flexcoders] Alternative image file formats

[Darron J. Schall]

With the ByteArray capability of Flash Player 9, "anything" is possible.  Jim Cheng has an .xls parser that loads an .xls file, scans it, and then displays the results in a data grid.  See here:  http://www.psalterego.com/2006/05/17/parsing-excel-files-with-actionscript-30/ If you can find the documentation for the .tiff format, you can do the same to convert it into bitmap data all in the Player.  Likewise, you can read the bytes of a loaded .doc file and pull out the information you want to display the contents in, say, a text area. The solution really depends on your use case.  It might be smarter to convert .tiff to .jpg on the server and pull that in directly instead of trying to write a .tiff decoder. -d Peterson, Chris wrote: I would like to be able to show .tiff images, as well as possibly word doc's or adobe acrobat files, inside my flex app. Is this possible without a server-side converter (which I think would be too slow for my purposes)? Chris __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Software development tool Software development Software development services Home design software Software development company Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___