On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:36:02PM +0800, Christopher Andrew Chenery wrote: > I then output the rowstride for the image which was 8 (bytes per row) > which prompted me to hack the code to loop 16 times and got: > > 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 80, 64, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 0, 0, > rowstride: 8 > > My Question is simply why are there two extra bytes per image row, what do > they represent and what is a rowstride? - the documentation assumes this > knowledge!
Rowstride is simply the width of a row - it's sometimes larger than the actual width for efficiency reasons (to 4-byte-align the rows for example). The extra padding bytes (rowstride - width) contain meaningless data that shouldn't be displayed. Havoc _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
