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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

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

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

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