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Title: BMP images don't display
Post by: Buddabing on March 14, 2007, 03:08:14 pm

.BMP images appear solid white.

This applies to BMPs in avatars as well as uploaded images in messages.

I can display .BMP images within IE

I tried changing my desktop resolution to 16 or 32 bits.

I'm running XP service pack 2.

Suggestions?

TIA,
Buddabing

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: ChadTower on March 14, 2007, 03:48:47 pm

BMP

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: sirwoogie on March 14, 2007, 11:24:29 pm

Don't use BMP. They only work in IE as that is the only common browser (I know of) to support BMP natively. My suggestion is to convert to a more common format of GIF, JPEG, or PNG.

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: Buddabing on March 15, 2007, 11:10:20 am

Tell that to all the people putting BMPs in their project announcement threads and their avatars.

I use JPG myself.

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: shardian on March 15, 2007, 11:23:34 am

I run firefox and I see everything. Could you point to an example?

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: Buddabing on March 15, 2007, 04:20:34 pm

Reply #64 in this thread (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=59359.msg589276).

PaigeOliver's and Howard_Casto's avatars (IIRC they are Nurse Chapel and some guy in a orange outfit and goatee).

Edit: Replies 70, 87, 95, and 96 in the same "Post your control panel pictures" thread.

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: ChadTower on March 15, 2007, 04:32:31 pm

I'm using Firefox 2.0 and can see all of those pictures.

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: Buddabing on March 15, 2007, 05:34:45 pm

My browser is IE 6.0.

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: AtomSmasher on March 15, 2007, 05:56:17 pm

No problems in Opera.

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: sirwoogie on March 15, 2007, 07:18:32 pm

Budda,

I looked at all of those images. They are all posted as JPEG.

Also, keep in mind that the forum software will not let you use BMP as an attachment or uploaded avatar. If it is a linked image though, that could use BMP. But, it's pretty uncommon for that to be used.

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: Buddabing on March 15, 2007, 08:35:42 pm

My other computer displays the images fine with IE7. Maybe it's an issue with the corporate firewall thinking those images are pr0n, or (unlikely) a problem with IE6.

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: ChadTower on March 16, 2007, 09:19:57 am

That is definitely possible.  Images just img tagged in from other sites could be on domains your work proxy doesn't allow.  Your browser won't give a reason for them not being there, it will just show the empty space where they would have been.

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: Space Fractal on March 16, 2007, 06:40:12 pm

do as sirwoogie say!

Do only use GIF, JPEG, or PNG files, since they are a much more common on webpages.

BMP files was never designed for use with a webpage, since they simply take so much file & traffic space.

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: FrizzleFried on March 17, 2007, 08:42:51 am

I too see all the pix listed with Firefox...

Title: Re: BMP images don't display
Post by: Howard_Casto on May 05, 2007, 05:49:18 pm

Like SF said, you aren't supposed to use bmps anyway.  Simply put they are HUGE!