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Playing around with the latest release (0.11b) trying out some of the gfxlib stuff...
Anyone know of an easy way to use standard .BMP bitmap files with the gfxlib stuff?
I have several 256 color bitmap tilesets that I am using as a base for a simple game. I thought I would try using the graphics in a simple program with the gfxlib functions as the base for the screen control.
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You load BMPs exactly in the same way you did in QB: coding a BMP loading routine.
There are thousands lying around for QB. Do a quick google search and you'll find plenty of BMP, PCX or GIF loaders. A fast port and you are done!
If you can't find any, I own the complete ABC packets. I could hunt for one.
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wasn't lillo playing around with the idea of having the bloading function he wrote load bitmaps ?
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I am working on TIFF image loader in FB, just wait until I finish it and convert your .BMPs to .TIFs in the meantime :wink: :wink: :wink:
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PTCXL has a BMP loader. It will need some minor changes to work with gfxlib but any coder worth his/her salt can accomplish that easily.
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I have a couple of BMP and PCX parsing routines for basic and pascal. I was going to port one of those but thought I might check for an obvious way that I might be overlooking.
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Nathan, any chance you could put up the ABC packets somewhere?
Last I checked, it seemed that the ABC site went down (maybe I just don't know where to look for it). I wouldn't mind having them all, though.
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You can get most of the ABC packets
here.
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ShadowWolf: yes I was playing with that idea, but didn't find the time to actually add it... Now I'm wondering if to leave that to external routines...
