RLE images

[Richmond]

On 14/07/14 23:42, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> It used to be that any image imported into a stack, regardless of the 
> original format, was converted to RLE. Is that still the case, or are 
> they now saved as the original jpg, png, etc. ?
>

Well?

If there is a way to tell what format an embedded image in a stack is in 
one could work this out.

Yup: I know that does not answer your question, and is pretty darn 
circular; but . . .

I remember posting a question about this in about 2002 (!!!!!!!) as I 
was then working on a
commercial project in Scotland for teaching High School kids a sort of 
dumbed-down Music
theory and history (the one who was the dumbest was me as the company 
didn't pay me any more
than 10% of what I had been promised). I remember that although I was 
converting
all my images into GIFs they were bloating when imported into 
Livecode/RR 2.0.1; and that was
explained to me on the Use-List because of the conversion into an 
internal format.

If RLE is what I think it is (Run-length encoding) then it is an 
antiquated Windows 3-ish sort of
bitmap which has gone the way of the dinosaurs everywhere else.

Richmond.