>Thanks for the info, Ken.
>
> > While only the scanline compression algorithm requires that
> > compression be done scanline-by-scanline, in practice both process
> > scanlines as chunks - which means that bitmaps using the RLE
> > compression won't collapse a sequence of identical bytes across a
> > scanline boundary.
>
>But theoretically the Palm can handle RLE-compressed images that do
>collapse identical bytes across a scanline? So if we wrote our image
>generation code that way, it would work?
I don't believe so, since the bitmap uncompression code handles one
scanline at a time, with no state maintained between scanlines for
the RLE compression algorithm.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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