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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / "save bitmap" in dbpro?

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jimrutt
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Posted: 1st Jun 2003 00:24
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I just upgraded from DB to DBPRO, and the only unpleasant surprise (so far!) seems to be the elimination of the "save bitmap" command. Looking thru the manual there doesn't seem to be a replacement. Is there a way I've missed to write out bitmaps as bmp's? It's mighty handy for looking at programatically created things in detail with a bitmap editor during development.
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 1st Jun 2003 00:49
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There's a DLL, plus IanM has DBPro routine.

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jimrutt
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okay... "there is a DLL" ... where can this DLL be found?

and "IanM has DBPro routine" ... who or what is "IanM"?

also, am curious why the "save bitmap" command would have been dropped in Dbpro, that seems so counter to the DB philosophy of making easy things easy.....

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Avan Madisen
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I beleive the 'save bitmap' and 'save image' commands were dropped due to 'redundancy', what they mean't by that I don't know, but that's one of the reasons why I still have DBC installed on my system, so I can create or modify images by writing my own code to do so. I am hoping that these commands will be brought back, but if there's a DLL that can do it my questions are, "Where can I find it?" and "I've never used DLL's in DBP yet, how'd I use it?"

Avan

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MrTAToad
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Posted: 1st Jun 2003 03:49 Edited at: 1st Jun 2003 03:57
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IanM is a large fluffy bunny (or a large, black, alien with two sets of acidic teeth - which you believe is up to you).

The DLL can be found on the RGT site.

As for Avan Madisen's last question about how you use DLL's - the answer is : Quite easily...

The less contrite answer is : Read the manual (or the instructions that may (or may not) come with the DLL).

PS - Sorry Ian - I know you wouldn't want to be compared to a fluffy bunny...

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jimrutt
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2003 21:53
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the DLL posted on the Real Game Tools site worked like a champ ... and in addition to .bmp also does .jpg.

thanks

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IanM
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Heh

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Attreid
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hmmm ... I think that I'll look as an idiot, but ... "what's the URL of the Real Game Tools site" ??

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MrTAToad
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2003 22:56 Edited at: 2nd Jun 2003 22:58
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I suggest you ask someone at http://www.realgametools.com/

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Nilrem
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If you still want to see the save bitmap function code then click the source button Jim.

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