#Datatypes
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I'm not sure my previous message ever made it up here. So I'll repeat
it again. Does anyone know anything about the Datatypes library. I need
info concerning whether I can scale bitmaps and how. Also concerning the
Amigaguide datatype. It seems not to work when I try to jump to a
hypertext button.
Please answer with any info you have, or even if you know somebody who
knows.
Thanks,
>> Mike Uman
>> Oxxi Tech Support
As far as I know, the standard bitmap datatypes don't scale. I'm sure
that you could write one which did. Of course, I haven't carefully read
the datatypes stuff in the DevCon notes because I haven't had to deal with
them programmatically.
Have you tried calling CATS or posting in the Bix closed developer support
areas?
— Dale L. Larson, Intangible Assets Manufacturing
— INTERNET:dale@iam.com
Hi Dale,
Yeah, I have tried calling Carolyn and unfortunately she has no
experience with the datatypes library. I have had some high hopes
concerning it's use in SBase4. It seems though, that I will be unable to
use it for the application I desire. I'd like to read the datatype to a
bitmap structure and Scale it myself if I have to. I need to be able to
display the image in a rectangle on form.
Thanks,
>> Mike Uman
>> Oxxi Tech Support
I think there is an intuition or graphics library call for scaling
bitmaps. I may have seen it mentioned in devcon datatypes stuff. There
is a way to scale an image in datatypes, but I don't know how integrated
it is. All I wanted to do was get a bitmap and palette from files of
different types, but the datatypes seemed to do everything but that.
Hi Arnie,
I know about the Graphics library call BitMapScale() but I need to be
able to get a Bitmap structure to scale. Datatypes renders to the rastport
of the window. I was thinking about trying to make a dummy window pointer,
but I don't think it is a good idea.
I think I will try sending EMail to David Junod, the author of the
datatypes library.
Thank you,
>> Mike Uman
>> Oxxi Tech Support