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dosdraw program in file area
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:08 am
by sid6.7
hi guys,
this program really appears to be neat
i'd like them to work it would help with static
graphics for games if so.
dosdraw creates a file *.ssf which is basically
x,y,k.....k = color
then your supose to be able to run this
to paint your picture to the screen...
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CLS
OPEN "filename.SSF" FOR INPUT AS #1
DO WHILE NOT EOF(1)
INPUT #1 ,X ,Y ,K
PSET (X,Y),K
LOOP
CLOSE #1
but for me it seems to keep locking up
on PSET and calling it an illegal function....
any idea's why?
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:46 pm
by The Awakened
Did you change the screen mode to whatever mode DosDraw uses?
By the way, having that x, y, c crap is too much. You shouldn't have to have the x/y coordinates, just the color of each pixel in seqential order. If DosDraw actually DOES do this (and as I write this now, I'm thinking it doesn't and you misread the documentation), ditch it. Your files will be 3 times as big as they need to be.
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:32 pm
by sid6.7
thats right out of the documents provided...
you can draw fine...but when you go to run
the file in qbasic it freaks...running it in qbasic
and running dosdraw are 2 different steps not related
to each other...
his file *.ssf does not include a screen mode call...
just straight numbers...
true the file is huge...but thats something else...
does PSET run in only certain screen modes?
thanks
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:00 pm
by sid6.7
okay SCREEN MODE was it...he didnt write that
in the documents...and for us NOOBS who dont
know what we're doing.....BOOM..
so when you use it you got to remember how each
file was made with each dosdraw module...in screen 9 12 13....
then when you write your program include that screen for that
module in your code......brb..since there are 3 versions of
dosdraw for each screen mode...OY...
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:27 pm
by The Awakened
It's not really a good idea to switch between screen modes unless you absolutely HAVE TO... and quite honestly, I can't think of anything that would need to.
My suggestion: screw DosDraw. Go download PixelPlus256, so you can use BSAVE and BLOAD.