[boost] Re: IOStreams endianness filter

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-13 10:42:36

"Tony Juricic" <tonygeek_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:ci3nbl$78h$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
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> "Jonathan Turkanis"  wrote:
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> > Could you elaborate?
>
> What info do you need? Specificially, I am trying to use the library to load
> TIFF image file and create in-memory Widows DIB to blast to screen. TIFF
> data are in big-endian order.

I know some image formats have a byte-order flag in the header somewhere which
determines how the pixel data is stored. Right? Wouldn't a general filter which
switches by order screw up the header too?

Forgive me, but I don't know the TIFF format.

Best Regards,
Jonathan