OK, bitmap is what I was looking for. Thanks. --Mitch On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:
> If you use File|Insert image... you end up getting an image-snip<%> > object. It is a wrapper around a bitmap% object that connects to our > editor classes. A bitmap% object is the raw bits plus a little bit of > information about it. > > Probably you just want to use 2htdp/image's 'bitmap' function, tho. > (Or maybe htdp/image's). > > Robby > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Mitchell Wand <w...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > Silly question: How can I read a file and treat its contents as an image? > > eg, I'd like to say something like: > > > > (define cat-image (read-image "cat-image.png")) > > > > The immediate advantage of doing this, rather than Insert|Image is that I > > can keep my .rkt file in text form, so I can use other tools on it. And > of > > course if I want to find an image dynamically I need something like this. > > > > I can't even see what datatype a value defined by Insert|Image is. > > > > --Mitch > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > For list-related administrative tasks: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > > > >
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