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  Re: Single BMP, perhaps you all misunderstood my question  
From: Margus Ramst
Date: 7 Sep 1999 07:01:53
Message: <37D4F08E.FA71E9A5@peak.edu.ee>
Remco de Korte wrote:
> 
> Jon A. Cruz wrote:
> >
> >
> > 1) Make it 64x640. Tall, not wide. Then you have the benefit of having the
> > memory for the one frame structured almost as if it was an individual pic.
> > Makes it better for several other reasons also. Each frame can be
> > displayed/manipulated without having to know the total number of frames.
> > Etc, etc., etc. It also makes it much easier for me to write you a custom
> > concatenation program if you can't find anything else.
> 
> Could you please explain. I don't think I understand your reasoning here.
> 

The reasoning is that bitmaps are ordered in rows, not columns. When the
X by Y components are stacked vertically, each component is represented
by a single X by Y long byte stream. When they are stacked horisontally,
a component are sliced into Y separate pieces, each X bytes long. Not a
big problem, but why do it the harder way?

Margus


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