Hi Damjan, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> Hi > > You wouldn't believe it, but one of the most invaluable testing tools > for commons-imaging I've discovered has been an x86 assembler :-). > > Why? Because images are binary files which often use internal offsets > to portions of the image. An assembler lets you easily calculate and > insert offsets at compile-time. See > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/imaging/trunk/src/test/data/images/bmp/4/rle8.asm > as an example. > > However it makes me uncomfortable to have both images and the assembly > in my tests when the images can be generated from the assembly, or > require nasm to compile tests. Also nasm is all good for little-endian > files, but it will never support big-endian. Is there some other > binary file manipulation tool you guys know of that I can use instead, > preferably one written in Java and ideally with a Maven plugin? Why don't you simply use a ByteBuffer? You cat set position, change byte order on the fly and read/write all kind of primitive Data automatically. Cheers, Jörg BTW: ImageInputStream and ImageOutputStream have similar capabilities. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
