Thank you Eugene!! That sounds like an excellent Idea. Regardless of it
being non-compressable, it still should save boocoo time. I will try it,
thanks a heck of a lot!!!
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"Eugene Mayevski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> > What I do is this, capture pen movements, when done convert to a bitmap
> and
> > save to a db for future use if needed. Then (since I dont know anything
> > about palm bit maps) I am grabbing the data from the gadget one pixel at
a
> > time and building a string representation of the gadget data ... for
> example
>
> Hello!
>
> This seems to be not very effective approach. I made the same thing
recently
> and here is what I did:
>
> I created 2 arrays:
> one of size [Drawing_field_Size_X * Drawing_field_Size_X / 8] (I use 1bpp
> scheme)
> and another one of size [Drawing_field_Size_X * Drawing_field_Size_X *
> sizeof(unsigned char)]. This will be the list of points.
>
> When the user draws a point, I get penDownEvent or penMoveEvent.
> I mark the point in first array, and if the point was not marked
before(!),
> I add it's coords to the list of points. This way I need to transfer the
> sequence of points, and not a bitmap. For my needs such approach appeared
to
> be much more effective. However RLE won't help in this case -- the
sequence
> is almost not compressable.
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Eugene Mayevski
>
>
>
>
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