davenport@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (04/06/91)
OK, silly question time. How do you create a title screen from a graphics picture (any file format)? A compatriot has a .TIF file, converted to .PCX, and wants to display it at the beginning of his program - either for a specified period of time or as a backdrop to some intro information. How should he store the picture and display it? Where is there C code that will display a graphics file under your programs control? Is it simple enough to RTFM? which FM? Would some product like PCX Toolkit work? (I'm not familiar with it). Just mail me any info you have and I'll summarize what I get in a post to the net for the benefit of all those out there who don't think this is a silly question. (There are some of you out there, right?) Rob -- ----- ----- Rob Davenport davenport%iccgcc.decnet.ab.com@abvax.icd.ab.com Allen-Bradley Co. "Oh mama, mama look there, Highland Hts. OH the children are playin' in the street again." (216) 646-3602 or 475-3343 - "Washington Bullets" The Clash, Sandinista ----- In Memoriam: Scott Robertson Yoder Davenport, 10/12/88 7/3/90 -----
frank@cavebbs.gen.nz (Frank van der Hulst) (04/08/91)
In article <4137.27fc6215@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> davenport@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: >How do you create a title screen from a graphics picture (any file format)? Here's what I did... it takes several steps, but it isn't complex: I had a MACPAINT picture I wanted to include in a program, so I found a utility to convert a MACPAINT to a .COM which displayed it, then waited for a key before exitting. I disassembled the display program, and removed the bit which waited for a key and cleared the screen. Next I wrote a Turbo-Pascal program to simply do a getimage on the screen to RAM, then dump it to a disk file... these two programs (PICTURE.COM and GET_PIC.EXE) were then run consecutively from a batch file -- that got me the screen image in a binary file. Next step (this is optional, since you could simply read the file back into an array in TP or TC, then use putimage to display it) was to convert the binary to an object via TP's BINOBJ utility, and then link it into my program to display via putimage. It's not exactly what you wanted, but I hope it gives you an idea. -- Take a walk on the wild side, and I don't mean the Milford Track. Kayaking: The art of appearing to want to go where your boat is taking you.
paulg@bhpmrl.oz.au (Paul Gallagher) (04/17/91)
I just posted an answer to a similar question in comp.lang.c (I think! maybe it was comp.lang.pascal) Paul Gallagher