sharing jpgs, do I need to convert my bitmapData to bytearray first?

[Andy Woods]

Hi there,

hoping that I don't need to byterray flvs, pngs etc before I shareWithAll. 

I would really appreciate your tips on this issue.

best wishes,
Andy.

[Jesse Warden]

You can't send BitmapData over the wire, only ByteArrays. It is very fast, though, both in code and in network.

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[Andy Woods]

Thanks for getting back to me so fast!

Yep, been exploring this issue the last few hours.  I'm trying out this method:

http://www.ghostwire.com/blog/archives/as3-serializing-a-bundle-of-bitmaps-as-data-objects/

cheers,
Andy.

[Jesse Warden]

I just used the JPG and PNG encoders that come with Flex:

https://github.com/JesterXL/SharedSlideshow/blob/master/ShareSlidesLib/src/com/jxl/shareslides/services/ImagesToSlideshowService.as

Also, I scaled 'em down if they didn't fit, but this was just for slides, not really good looking pictures.

Also, that Zip library that Claus or whoever published is insanely easy to work with; you can very quickly put a bunch of images in the zip file, save it to disk, and just shuttle the ZIP over the wire. Obviously compression doesn't help much, but makes your code easier to read, heh.

[Andy Woods]

Got that code to work. In case useful to anyone, am attaching my class.  You pass bitmaps to saveImage(name, bitmap).  Once done, you receive your compiled compressed bytearray via bytearray().  At the receiver end, you uncompile your bytearray via bytearrayToStim(byteArray) and access your files via the toReceive_imgLibrary object.