Re: Compressing the bitmap

2003-11-17 Thread Ben Combee
At 07:11 AM 11/17/2003, miches wrote: hi marianne, your bmp image must be huge, but I had experience before compressing maps using Constructor, and I can't pack it all in 64K. I have as much as 220 KB compressed into around 50K. Using PiLRC is actually easy, and I'm sure you won't have much tr

Re: Compressing the bitmap

2003-11-17 Thread miches
use I have no experience using PiLRC.. > > Regards > Marianne > > > - Original Message - > From: "miches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 6:31 PM > Subject: Re: Comp

Re: Compressing the bitmap

2003-11-17 Thread Marianne
iches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 6:31 PM Subject: Re: Compressing the bitmap > hi marianne, > > bitmaps resources have a 64k boundary limit, coz they are stored as database records too.

Re: Compressing the bitmap

2003-11-15 Thread miches
hi marianne, bitmaps resources have a 64k boundary limit, coz they are stored as database records too. you can try the other compression methods available such as the Packed-Bits, Best-Fit and others for constructor. Also, in my experience, i have achieved huge compression ratio using PiLRC.

Compressing the bitmap

2003-11-15 Thread Marianne
Hello, There has been a discussion on compressing and uncompressing a bitmap resource.. I am using the constructor v1.8 I have set the compression in property to RLE.. But during compilation it gives warning saying " PalmRez Warning: Output resource size is greater than ~64K size limit: 'Tbmp 13