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- From: rofische@iiic.ethz.ch (Roman Fischer)
- Subject: Problem: Nasty Bitmaps
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.083211.3396@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
- Originator: rofische@a13
- Sender: news@neptune.inf.ethz.ch (Mr News)
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- Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:32:11 GMT
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- Hi PM-Programmers,
-
- we are currently writting a game running under PM. The basic idea consists of
- two players simutaneiously fighting against a set of evil monsters. So we need
- lots (~20) of small bitmaps that move around the screen (window).
- The bitmaps were created with IconEdit and are loaded with GpiLoadBitmap. Since
- we need 4 versions of every monster (looking to the left, right, up and down),
- we need to "turn" the bitmaps. Because we don't want to change 4 bitmaps if
- we decide to change the look of a ghost, we decided to turn them "by software"
- at program-startup. So far no problem.
-
- So we load the bitmaps and put them into a presentation space (associated to a
- appropriate dev.context). Still no problems, they look just great!
-
- But now, when reading them into a buffer to perform the turning-act (using
- GpiQueryBitmapBits), we noticed a strange behaviour:
-
- The original size of the bitmaps is 20x20 pixels. When loading, we resize them
- to 36x36 pixels. Now, when reading the data into the buffer, the x-dimension
- is 40 !!!!
-
- This means: a. GpiQueryBitmapInfo returns a cx value of 36 (as expected).
- But a short look at the data received from GpiQueryBitmapBits
- shows, that every scan-line consists of 40 pixels (20 bytes).
-
- b. You cannot use cx to calculate the offset of a pixel.
- To calculate the correct offset, you need to know the number
- of bytes per scan-line.
-
- c. If you don't know the original size of the bitmap, you cannot
- tell the correct way to address a pixel within that bitmap !!
-
- Now:
- a. Did we miss an important part in any doc ?
- b. Number of bytes per scan-line, any idea?
-
-
- Please post any responses, comments or ideas here or send email to
- mhof@iiic.ethz.ch or rofische@.iiic.ethz.ch.
-
- Regards Roman
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