[comp.lang.pascal] Displaying "alien" pictures with TurboPascal

T.Stewart@massey.ac.nz (T.M. Stewart) (12/05/90)

I'm sure this problem would have been discussed before here but I'm
quite new to Turbo Pascal programming so bear with me.  Can any of you
gurus help me with this one.


I am writing a piece of software in TurboPascal 5.5 where I will
ocassionally need to show pictures prepared from other drawing software
such as Microsoft Paintbrush, Harvard graphics ect.  The TP program
would have to call them up, display them, and then return to itself.

How would I go about doing this?  Is there any sort of public domain
convert routine from paintbrush files to TP graphics files?
Alternatively, to prevent me from re-inventing the wheel, is there any
PD source code which will display these files from turbo-pascal
directly.

Any ideas gratefully received.  Thanks in advance.


Cheers

Terry Stewart (TStewart@massey.ac.nz)
Massey University
Palmerston North


P.S.  The TP program does many other things beside displaying the
pictures (i.e. it is not a just a "slide show").