[Starmap2-devteam] Fw: [games - Games Coding Help] RE: Bitmap file format

[Trace K. <Tra...@ne...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Brix Kjelgaard <bo...@pr...>
To: Trace Kern <Tra...@ne...>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [games - Games Coding Help] RE: Bitmap file format


> Actually, I'm comfortable with the standard Windows technologies and
tools.
> I get the impression that SDL and such are good choices if you want to run
> on Linux, Mac OS, etc.  There are a lot of differences in how things are
> done, and these packages try to cover that complexity.
>
> For now, I'd prefer to stick to Windows, if that's OK.  I'm being
reasonable
> about how the program is constructed, so I think a competent programmer
> could always take what I'm producing and alter the GUI components but
leave
> the issues of how things work otherwise intact.  Also, I can get it done
> "quicker" if I can concentrate on understanding what's there.  After all
> "there's always version 2"!  (OK, 3 in our case).
>
> So far, I've got a "splash screen" up- it's a nifty photo of the horsehead
> nebula with some text identifying the program as Starmap 2.0 and the old
> "exploring in 3 dimensions" (or whatever it was) centered in the top in
> white.  A totally cool graphics guy could blow it away, I'm sure (fades,
> sttreaming video, etc), but to me, it's just a splash screen, and good
> enough for now.  It's supposed to stay up while the program loads its
files,
> but at the moment, it just stays up for 5 seconds and vanishes.  Might be
a
> waste of time, actually- C is much faster than Basic, and if these files
are
> as simple as they appear to be, that splash time might be pretty small...
>
> I was going to create an initial dialog for the main menu, and then
convert
> the code to load the main data files.  All that stuff's in the
"Starmap.Bas"
> file, and it's about 20% of the total source in the program.  I'll
probably
> finish a lot of that today- I'll just have to see how it goes.
>
> If you think it'd be worthwhile, I can upload at least the binaries
sometime
> soon so we can announce our "progress", and keep those project activity
> scores up there.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Trace Kern" <Tra...@ne...>
> To: "Robert Brix Kjelgaard" <bo...@pr...>
> Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 2:56 PM
> Subject: Fw: [games - Games Coding Help] RE: Bitmap file format
>
>
> > Will this be useful to us?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <no...@so...>
> > To: <no...@so...>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 12:26 PM
> > Subject: [games - Games Coding Help] RE: Bitmap file format
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Read and respond to this message at:
> > > http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=248532
> > > By: jakobk
> > >
> > > Are you using SDL? If yes, the SDL_image library might be useful.
> > > (http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/index.html).
> > >
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