Supported Picture Image Formats
The picture image formats that are handled by JADE using the pictureType method of the Picture class are listed in the following table.
| Picture Format | File Type | Description |
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| Windows bitmap | .bmp | Standard Microsoft bitmap image. |
| Windows compressed bitmap | .rle | Both RLE4 and RLE8. |
| Windows icons | .ico | File can contain single or multiple icons. If multiple icons, JADE selects the icon with the closest color characteristics to the video display of the user. |
| Note that icons can be used as cursors, except that there is no hot spot. | ||
| Windows metafile | .wmf | Standard Microsoft Windows metafile. |
| Windows enhanced metafile | .emf | Standard Microsoft enhanced metafile. |
| Windows cursor | .cur | Standard Microsoft cursor. (Note that cursors are converted to an icon when used as a picture rather than a cursor.) |
| Tag Image File Format | .tif | TIFF files (both the Intel and Motorola versions). JADE supports the following TIFF compression styles (CCITT is the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee). |
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| Graphics Interchange Format | .gif | Only .gif files containing images are handled. Text records within a .gif file are ignored. JADE does not support the ability to convert images to .gif files. |
| Animated GIF handling is supported only if the picture property of a Picture or JadeMask control is set to a GIF binary that contains more than one image. | ||
| Joint Photographic Experts Group | .jpg | All JPEG files in compliance with the JFIF standard are supported, including compressed JPEG images. Also the JPEG 2000 style images. |
| Portable Network Graphics | .png | Lossless compression images for greater clarity of graphics. |
