graphics dillema - Printable Version

graphics dillema - Printable Version

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graphics dillema - Agamemnus - 03-01-2003

I need to be able to:

load 256-color GIF files with > 320x200 size. (about 1200x800)
move them around
use PRINT and LOCATE (with equivalent of color F, B)
use PCOPY equivalent.
use draw routines or equivalent. (this is for menu boxes and a custom mouse)
A bigger screen size that 320x200 is preferrable.. screen 8 resolution is good.

Any ideas? Sad

Preferrably cut and paste ASM for DOS/Windoze. Otherwise a lib with a low learning curve.

i know it's a "high order"...

graphics dillema - Scrapyard - 03-01-2003

You could use UGL or the future library to do this

graphics dillema - Agamemnus - 03-01-2003

Otherwise a lib with a low learning curve.

You can't use PRINT or anything QB in Future library... gotta use the Future Lib stuff, and I can't figure the damn thing out.

UGL is too hard, too hard!! Sad

edit: bla, I found the ttf > uvf converter. After reordering the stupid examples (I hate Blitz's coding style), I got the demo to work...

edit (again): bla, I got 800x600x16bit with a picture and font.

edit (yet again) Bla, where are the GIFs?

graphics dillema - toonski84 - 03-01-2003

what? ugl is easy, dude... surfaces make everything easier.

as for a gif loader, degif6.bas is what i use. the guy that made that made an asm version as well.

graphics dillema - Agamemnus - 03-02-2003

fine, fine. It's working now. mostly.

graphics dillema - Hexadecimal Disaster - 03-02-2003

BTW, why GIF specifically? Just for the compression ratio?

graphics dillema - toonski84 - 03-02-2003

i'd say for compression ratio and palette/image set options

graphics dillema - Agamemnus - 03-02-2003

yeah, definetly the palette. It's much easier that way.

You can't define your own palette in a BMP with Paint easily. Although if I take my picture, make it in Paint, send it to my GIF editor for palette modification, then send it to Photoshop in BMP format I would accomplish the same thing as a GIF, except in BMP format.

But it takes a bit.

graphics dillema - Blitz - 03-02-2003

ph334r my coding style, tis l33t.

graphics dillema - Hexadecimal Disaster - 03-03-2003

*muffles a laugh*

er... if you're using GIF just for the palette... why don't you use PCX? [Image: aeh.gif]