[markdude]

Hi All,
I've code that converts JPG to thumbnails. The problem is sometime picture is too big to process in memory, and I've out of memory exception.
I've noticed there a file called BBThumbs.dat in Blackberry picture folder, and I wonder if I can display it instead making thumbs from all pictures manually.
How can I import BBThumbs.dat into my program?

Please help,
markdude

[Ivanov]

I looked at the format of that file some time ago and here is what I think about it.

It contains a sequence of thumbnails in PNG format. The .dat file contains a RIM's own header (first 37 Byte) and footer (last 41 Byte).

After the header begins the PNG signature: 89h 50h 4Eh 47h 0Dh 0Ah 1Ah 0Ah
Each png contains 3 CHUNKs: IHDR, IDAT, IEND
The end of the PNG file is right after the IEND Chunk: AEh 42h 60h 82h

after it follwos again the header and the signature of the next png thumbnail.

So it should be quite easy to write a parser for it to extract all thumbnails (or one specific). I don't know what kind of information is contained in RIM's header, but the most important would be the file name which is readable.

If you write a parser for it, I would be happy to see your code here