Application compression in the OS, huh? Is the decompression algorithm
exposed anywhere? What algorithm is used?
Also out of curiosity, bitmaps can be compressed using scan line compression
or run length compression. RLE is a pretty standard compression algorithm,
but what is scan line compression? (I'd like to decide which compression
will be better for the images in my resources, but I'd rather not have to
make that decision by trying it out on every image. Knowing the compression
algorithm would help.)
Thanks in advance,
-Bob Whiteman
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fedor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 4:06 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: m100 EFIGS oddness
[...]As for Security: ROM space was very tight and so they had to keep that
> application compressed in ROM, and the appropriate language of it gets
> decompressed and installed in RAM once you've chosen your language.
> Having 5 languages all available takes a good deal of memory, and
> there wasn't quite enough without the Welcome app doing a little
> compression on the Security app.
>
> -David Fedor
> Palm Developer Support
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