by manikantan (12 Submissions)
Category: Graphics
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Wed 25th October 2000
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
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Expalins the Graphics Supports By VB and Depth of Support
VBcoders
Manikantan
3rd Agenda,
Web Development,
India.
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Graphic Support By Visual Basic
Storing and accesing Graphics data Require Complex Data
Strucrures.While Declaring the data Structures for accesing the
graphics data many factors should be considered like
1) The Image Data formats
2) The Disk Space Required
3) The Speed at which the data can be accessed
So the Support extended by a Software are restricted to
the vast image formats that release nowadays.
The list of Image formats that are Supported are
1)Windows Bitmap
.Bmp files are Supported by windows,OS2 and some DOS based
applications.The .Bmp format supports various depths the various
depths are
1) 1 bit format
2) 4 bit format
3) 8 bit format
4) 16 bit format
5) and 24 bit formats
There are subcategory at the level of bitmaps they are
1)Bitmaps
2)Device Independent Bitmap(called DIB)
All the Images Formats of the .Bitmap are Supported by Visual Basic.
Visual Basic Also Supports JPEG(Joint Picture Experts Group)
but internally they are converted to .bmp format to represent them in Visual Basic
The JPEG can Achieve high degree of compression.
The GIF Format:
Compuserve designed the format for this GIF(Graphics Interchange Format).
This format requires low space for Storing but relatively slow for
rendering.Most of the Images that are being used in the World Wide web
are this format.And VB provides Support to this Format and also the later
version of this called the Animated GIF.
The Windows Icon Image:
The Windows Icon Image are less Resolution images of maximum
32 x 32 Resolution and usually supports 16 colors.Visual Basic
extends supports various resolutions of this .ICO files
Microsoft CUR files.
Cursor is the Position in the screen which is Active and to
respresent this we have a Seperate image called as the cursor images.
Cursors are useful in representing the user status of the
applciation .Even this format (the .Cur ) is Supported by Visual Basic to
represent variuos Status of the Applications that we create using
Visual Basic.
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Manikantan
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