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Capturing bitmaps
5
Repeat steps 3 and 4 to capture another bitmap. Alternatively, open an
existing bitmap file.
6
Save the bitmap, as described below.
Now you are ready to compare the two bitmaps (see "Comparing bitmaps" on
page 414) or crea
te a mask for the baseline bitmap (see "Creating and
applying masks" on page 419)
.
Saving captured
bitmaps
You can, if you want, save the bitmaps you've captured in the tool. You
should adopt a naming convention that helps you distinguish between the first
bitmap in the comparison, called the baseline bitmap, and the second bitmap,
called the result bitmap. You can make the distinction in the file name itself,
for example, by appending or prefixing a "b" or "r" to the name and using the
same file extension for all bitmap files. Or you might use the same file name
for both baseline and result bitmaps and add a unique file extension.
Example You save baseline and result bitmaps of the Open dialog as
open.bmp and open.rmp. Alternatively, you might name them openbase.bmp
and openres.bmp, respectively.
The following table lists the file extensions supported by the Windows
Bitmap Tool. We recommend that you use .bmp for baseline bitmaps and
.rmp for result bitmaps.
If you are
saving
And you want the file name
to be
Then use this file
extension
Baseline bitmap Identical to the result bitmap's
.bmp
Result bitmap
Identical to the baseline bitmap's
.rmp