Thread: Hello all (re:bitmap image file)

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    Question Hello all, a newbie's question about image reading

    I know that this may or may not be common knowledge, but I'm trying to find out the header length of a bitmap image file, you know the stuff before it starts telling what the image is... Anyway, I'm trying to make a tiling system in DirectX, but in order to do that I need to be able to tile images... and in order to do that I need to know the length of the header in a bitmap image. ANY help is appreciated. Thank you in advance.
    ~~Tre'~~
    Last edited by Plastyksouljah; 11-21-2003 at 02:30 AM.

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    Do a search at MSDN with google, the bitmap header structure is standard under Windows.

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    thanks

    you know, I didn't think to search msdn... I used yahoo... Thanks for the help, it is VERY much appreciated

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    wotsit.org is a great source for file formats.

    And, please put the subject of your post in your title. See the board guidelines and hints.

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    sorry

    Sorry, I read it after I posted, but alas... it was too late.
    Thank you for your advice though, I really don't wanna make people too mad at me in my first day! :P

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    Thank you for your advice though, I really don't wanna make people too mad at me in my first day! :P
    Don't worry about it. Hey, at least you care. :P

    BTW what's your name mean???
    Stan The Man. Beatles fan

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    my name is basically...

    my name basically means Plastic Soldier. You know the little green army men that used to be quite prevalent as toys in the 80's? Well, when I first started doing martial arts, they said I was about as flexible as one of them, one of the plastic soldiers. I spell it differently, due to religious beliefs (SOULjah) and Plastyk just happened. I don't really wanna offend people here with my religious beliefs, cuz I know that some people don't take kindly to Christians.

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