OK, bitmap is what I was looking for. Thanks. --Mitch<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Robby Findler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">If you use File|Insert image... you end up getting an image-snip<%><br> object. It is a wrapper around a bitmap% object that connects to our<br> editor classes. A bitmap% object is the raw bits plus a little bit of<br> information about it.<br> <br> Probably you just want to use 2htdp/image's 'bitmap' function, tho.<br> (Or maybe htdp/image's).<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Robby<br> </font><div class="im"><br> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Mitchell Wand <<a href="mailto:wand@ccs.neu.edu">wand@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote:<br> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Silly question: How can I read a file and treat its contents as an image?<br> > eg, I'd like to say something like:<br> ><br> > (define cat-image (read-image "cat-image.png"))<br> ><br> > The immediate advantage of doing this, rather than Insert|Image is that I<br> > can keep my .rkt file in text form, so I can use other tools on it. And of<br> > course if I want to find an image dynamically I need something like this.<br> ><br> > I can't even see what datatype a value defined by Insert|Image is.<br> ><br> > --Mitch<br> ><br> ><br> ><br> </div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> _________________________________________________<br> > For list-related administrative tasks:<br> > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users</a><br> ><br> <br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>