ImagePro>Re: format for binary and scr outlines

["Chris Tully" <ctully[at]mediacy.com>]

Michael,

I will second Jean-Paul's comments that you should not try to parse the .scl
files.  I will also warn you that we have recently discovered some problems
with the .out format, most commonly associated with objects that have
holes - so if your objects have holes stay away from the .out file format.

I would suggest that the safest way to do the processing that you want to do
is:

1) extract the blob outlines as you have been doing, using IpBlbGet()
2) Process as you desire
3) create an AOI using the processed outline, using IpAoiCreateIrregular()
4) Convert that AOI to a blob using IpBlbFromAoi()

Chris Tully
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-----Original Message-----
From: Image-Pro Plus Users Email List
[mailto:imagepro-users@lists.mediacy.com]On Behalf Of Michael Plonski
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:47 AM
To: Image-Pro Plus Users Email List
Subject: ImagePro>format for binary and scr outlines


Is the format for binary and scr outlines that are saved to a file
documented somewhere.
The text format version can't be read back in.  I would like to pick up the
outlines with a C-routine and modify them and then read them back in.  Right
now I can pass the outlines to a C-routine directly using the SDK via the
BlbGet, but I don't know how to get them back into image pro after I modify
them.  I need to save this modified outlines off as a set of outlines that
can be reloaded from file.  I either need to be able to generate the outline
files directly from C or pass them back to image pro via the SDK so that it
can save them as binary.
My plan at the moment is to pass back an area of interest - which you can
then convert into an outline (BlbFromAOI), but this only does on outline at
a time.
It also seems that the SDK only allows one to load binary files and not scr
files.  What is the scr format for outline data used for??  When I looked at
one it was just binary data.

any thoughts would be appreciated.

Mike Plonski


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