On December 5, 2002 12:23 am, Bill Andreozzi wrote: > How is the bitmap compressed? - If it's using normal bitmap compression > (e.g. rle, scanline, or packbits) - the bitmap apis would handle it? > thanks - bill
Using the bitmap tools to compress text tata... that's an idea. RLE would work quite well, but would probably do odd things at "resoultions" other than 8 bit. You wouldn't get very good compression, though. > > I was looking at Zplucker and trying to find how to uncompress a record. > > Looking in the uncompress.c & .h I got lost in the madness, I'm not > > with all the throws. Are there any API calls to use? If so is there any > > documentation on them? Zplucker (note the Z, though I didn't when I grabbed a copy) means that it uses ZLib compression. (Plucker does use zlib, to my knowledge.) ZLib is pretty much like .gz or .zip compression, but is a bit of a pain to understand. If you're trying to get a record out of a plucker database, good luck. You'll need to understand uncompress.c and .h. If you're trying to uncompress any other bitmap (standard Palm bitmaps) then you should look at the Palm API. Hunt around on google for 'palm zlib' and read the API there. That should make uncompress.c and .h much easier to understand. -- Matthew (Darkstorm) Bevan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Margin Software, NECTI. http://www.marginsoftware.com Re-inventing the wheel, every time. - It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. -- Bertrand Russell -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
