Chapter 42. imagelib

Chapter 42. imagelib
	Part III. SIMPOL-Language Libraries

Chapter 42. imagelib

Thi9s library was started by Simpol Limited and extended significantly and contributed by John Roberts. It provides functionality for saving blobs as BMPs and XPM files, as well as reading them from such files.

BMP

Description

Type Tags

None

Object Value

Objects of type BMP have no value, and it is an error to try to get or set this value.

BMP.new()

Description

Prototype

BMP.new ( BMP me, string filename, string name )

Parameters

Parameter	Default value	Type name
me	None	BMP
filename	None	string
name	None	string

Properties

Property	Type	Description
backcolor	integer
charsperpixel	integer
data	blob
filename	string
getdefbackcolor	function
getheader	function
header	BMP_header
height	integer
infoheader	BMP_infoheader
name	string
palette	colorpalette
readfromfile	function
rereadpalette	function
type	type
width	integer
writetofile	function

Methods

getdefbackcolor()

Description

Prototype

BMPvar.getdefbackcolor ( BMP me )

Parameters

Parameter	Default value	Type name	Description
me	None	BMP

getheader()

Description

Prototype

BMPvar.getheader ( BMP bmp, integer error )

Parameters

Parameter	Default value	Type name	Description
bmp	None	BMP
error	None	integer

readfromfile()

Description

Prototype

BMPvar.readfromfile ( BMP me, string filename, integer error )

Parameters

Parameter	Default value	Type name
me	None	BMP
filename	None	string
error	None	integer

rereadpalette()

Description

Prototype

BMPvar.rereadpalette ( BMP me, boolean buildstrindx, integer error )

Parameters

Parameter	Default value	Type name
me	None	BMP
buildstrindx	`.false`	boolean
error	None	integer

writetofile()

Description

Prototype

BMPvar.writetofile ( BMP bmp, string filename, integer bmpbits, integer error )

Parameters

Parameter	Default value	Type name
bmp	None	BMP
filename	None	string
bmpbits	None	integer
error	None	integer


toieee8()		BMP_header