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Parsing and displaying BMP files via ActionScript
I dont have a formal computer science training / education, so I never got the chance to learn about working with low level data structures (bits and bytes). I have wanted to learn this for some time, but had difficulty finding resources for it which didnt assume I had a computer science degree.
Well, yesterday, FITC posted all of the video sessions from FITC Toronto, and I spent some time watching Lee Brimelow’s presentation on working with ByteArrays. It is a really great session, that provides a clear and solid foundation and understanding of working with ByteArrays and bits and bytes.
Anyways, after watching Lee’s session, it all finally clicked for me, and I spent some time last night putting together a simple parser that would dynamically load and display a 24Bit BMP image file within Flash.
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