[Gdal-dev] Gdal interface function

[Ayman Kamal]

I want to use a mechanism similar to what
"GDALCreateCopy" uses to write the data to a disk file

is this possible?
Can you help me further?
--- Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Ayman Kamal wrote:
> > I use Gdal to convert a geotiff file into bmp, now
> > instead of saving the bmp on a disk file, I need
> to
> > get the memory buffer that contains the bmp data.
> > 
> > So, what interface functions do I have to use from
> > Gdal to accomplish this? And in what format does
> this
> > data come ( int, unsigned int, ..)?
> > 
> > If there is a help file that contains all
> interface
> > functions in general that will be great so that I
> > don't refer to you for future quries about other
> functionalities.
> 
> Ayman,
> 
> There is no mechanism in place currently for
> creating formats like BMP
> strictly in memory.  You want the data in BMP format
> in memory, right?
> Of course, you can write it to disk, and then read
> it into memory.
> 
> Later,
> 
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