Hi. In a book, it give an example on loading bitmaps in. Theres a part where it finds out the size of the image data (if no size is specified). Here''s basicly what its doing: (biWidth * biBitCount + 7) / 8 * abs(biHeight) I need to know two things here: What is this doing? I mean, where did the 7 and the 8 come from? and What the function abs(int) (in stdlib.h) does? thx, -J

um.. what does it do/mean?

Absolute value makes the number positive. Since the height of a bitmap can be negative (specifying a different format for the bitmap) this code is making sure that it is not returning a negative size.

My guess for what it is doing is this:

biWidth * biBitCount : bits per line
+ 7 : add 7 more bits for alignment
/ 8 : number of bytes per line
* abs(biHeight) : times number of lines

So, if you had a 1x1 monochrome bitmap it would look like this:

(1 * 1 + 7) / 8 * abs(1) = (8 / 8) * 1 = 1, or 1 byte of memory used.


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