The last worked like a charm!   Thanks a lot to all of you for the great
help!!!!

Orlin

On 10/15/07, Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> From: "Orlin Grigorov" <ogrigorov@gmail.com>
>
> > With "GlPix.to_raw image" I can make the it raw, if that will help.
> >
> > The question is, I really need a way to save this "image" in a file, and
> be
> > able to recreate it.
>
> Once it is raw, you can read it with
>    Raw.gets_string raw ~pos:0 ~len:(Raw.byte_size raw)
>
> You can read it back in the same way:
>    let raw = Raw.create `ubyte ~len:(w*h*4) in
>    Raw.sets_string raw ~pos:0 ~len:(w*h*4) s;
>    GlPix.of_raw raw ~format:`rgba ~width:w ~height:h
>
> This should be efficient enough.
> Once you get a string, you know how to do the I/O.
>
> Jacques Garrigue
>