I am using.. x=Set_Property(ctrlname,"BITMAP", Path:"\":picture:ext) to display an image. Using the help file it says… Remarks The BITMAP control supports .BMP, .ICO, .WMF, .GIF, and .PCX file formats.

Using this I can only get an image when the file extension is .bmp.

I understand from another thread (thanks oystein) that there are

two forms of gifs. (Ahhh DOS 8.3 wonderful)

Is there another way in OI to easily display jpeg or the "other" gif

format? Jpeg seems to have the smallest file size so in this case

that would be the ideal.

Thanks

FYI, -

Just took a jpeg and changed it from 24bit to 8bit and saved as a

jpeg and then tried to display… and it worked!!

Curious topic…..

AFAIK JPEGs are always 24-bit (at least colour JPEGs are - perhaps there are 8-bit greyscale JPEGs). I think all you did by changing to 8-bit was to reduce the number of colours actually used.

I think your problem might be just as with GIFs - there are various flavours, and OI cannot handle them all. Perhaps your original JPEG was a progressive JPEG, and you saved it as a different kind of JPEG. OI cannot show progressive JPEGs. (Progressive=format used on the web; the image appears in a blinder-like fashion; nice because the whole image area shows, before the whole image is downloaded, albeit in a low quality.)

I now tried all the different JPEG flavours two of the image programs that I use can produce - HiJaak Pro 4.01 and PhotoShop 4.0. (Neither of these programs are the newest version, so I expect they can produce even more flavours when I upgrade. Haha.)

HiJaak Pro 4.01 gave me a choice between JFIF, JTIF and Lead Compression. OI showed all of these. PhotoShop 4.0's choices were Baseline ("Standard"), Baseline Optimized and Progressive. OI showed all except Progressive.

I don't know why the choices in the two programs seem so different, and they really sound like totally different flavours to me. I think I need to read up on JPEG.

- Oystein -

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