Awesome. That's just what I needed to know. Implementation
sounds straightforward but time is of the essence. I don't
suppose you would be willing to share your code?
gw.
Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> > Would zlib be a good way to compress a bunch of bitmaps
> > and uncompress them selectively at run time on the palm?
>
> it all depends on the bitmaps you are storing.. what depth? etc.
> in my recent project, i managed to compress five 2bit bitmaps of
> the following sizes:
>
> 152x120,
> 304x240,
> 608x480,
> 1216x960 and
> 2432x1920 into 88K
>
> from the windows .BMP files (16bit) the compression was from
> 3 Megs to 88K.. i used simple runlength encoding, which also
> made it easier to display the bitmaps in real time (no uncompression
> (complex) was required)
>
> cheers.
>
> az.
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