2011/12/7 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com>: > 2011/12/7 Ing. Héctor F. Fiandor Rosario <hfiandor@....>: >> >> thanks very much, > > My pleasure. If you are storing *.bmp files, they are uncompressed > images (always I think), so can be rather large. If storage size might > be a problem, I would then suggest you base64 encode the image, then > gzip the base64 tex, then store in a field. This reduces the storage > size considerably. This is what I use in some of my projects.
I wonder: why base64 encode the image in the first place? I thought it was to make plain ascii, suitable for a text field. Then I don't understand how you can keep it plain ascii (no null characters, for example), if you gzip it. Vincent -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
