Re: [Pipmak-Devel] Pipmak development

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

Andrea Viarengo wrote:
> I thought also to add two command line switches:
> 
> -reg and -unreg
> 
> which perform just registry key writing and deleting to use these
> with an eventual setup/uninstall program (game plus pipmak engine). 
> What do you think about?

I don't care. Implement it in a nice way and I'll integrate it.

> I tryed also to add some other image manipulation methods, like 
> drawing lines, circles, similarly to image:fill() but, for the moment
> I cannot manage to use glBegin construct on a SDL surface...

Hmm... you mean using some way of render-to-texture? Never thought about
that.

> I also found some library to draw line, circle and so on with SDL
> (i.e.: SDL_draw) but it seems that it draws line point by point!! I
> think it's stupid to do that when it's possible to use hardware
> primitives (and openGl use the accelerated features of the graphic
> cards, I believe...)

Exactly. That's why there is no function to blit an image onto another,
for example - you're better off using separate patches.

> Another thing that I think could be useful: a function that return 
> the width in pixels of a text, so I could use before draw it. For
> example, If I want to create a text button, I need this info to draw
> the contour of the button before write the text inside... and avoid
> that the text goes beyond the edge of the button... For example
> myWidth=image:textwidth("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet") What do you
> think about?

Good idea. I see no sense in making it an image method, and it needs to 
take the same arguments as image:drawtext(), but yeah.

  -Christian