# Creating Bitmaps from ARGB strings?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-bitmaps-from-argb-strings/307291>\
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**Created:** [March 31, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-bitmaps-from-argb-strings/307291 "2010-03-31T23:35:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ashenwraith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@Ashenwraith](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ashenwraith)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-bitmaps-from-argb-strings/307291/1 "2010-03-31T23:35:51Z")

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Hi, what’s the fastest way to dump your data (not from a file) into a bitmap for display?

I have it working with setPixels and colored rects but that’s way too slow.

Is there a way to load in the raw bytes or hijack the loader class to put in custom loader data?

What would be best?