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dxGetPixelsFormat

Client-side

Server-side

Shared

This function returns the format of pixels contained in a string.

Syntax

string dxGetPixelsFormat ( string pixels )

Required arguments

pixels: The pixels to get the format of.

Returns

Returns the format of the pixels if successful, false if invalid arguments were passed to the function.

string: pixels format
- plain
- png
- jpeg
- dds

Code Examples

client

The example loads an image, gets its pixels, and outputs the pixels format.

addEventHandler('onClientResourceStart', resourceRoot, function()
    local img = fileOpen('img.jpg')
    local pixels = fileRead(img, fileGetSize(img))
    local pixelsFormat = dxGetPixelsFormat(pixels)
    outputChatBox('Pixels format is: ' .. pixelsFormat)
    fileClose(img)
end)

See Also

Drawing Elements

Reference

Scripting Functions