Bitmap format issues about format HOT 5 CLOSED

The common format to represent pixels is BGRA stored in low endian (so bytes in BGRA order). But maybe i should make it more explicit by taking the hxd.Pixels class from Heaps.io and porting it to format, but then it's tight to hxd.BitmapData, etc. https://github.com/ncannasse/heaps/blob/master/hxd/Pixels.hx

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To clarify:

it seems that currently the code would only work with 32bpp bitmaps (

I think that Data and Header should represent the format in a closer way, and delegate the conversion to more familiar/easier formats to other functions (like png and gif do, with exctract___ and build___ methods).

I'm not sure it's worth the effort to fix this specific one (due to the fact that BMP is unefficient when compared to png and other formats), but at the same time I thought it would be useful to bring the subject up.

Having some directions on what is the expected way to write support for other file formats and expand this lib would be great!

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In general, when an image has been decoded in format library, it's usually represented in memory / bytes as a top-down 32bits data.

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Yes, that's what extractARGB/BGRA() would eventually do. But do you agree that Data should represent the binary file more closely (so that, f.e., modifying it in place and writing it back to disk doesn't need any type of conversion)?

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yes, I agree, it should be as much near from the file data, especially if it's read directly as it.

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