George Gwilt has a program which will grab the whole or part of a screen and save it as a partial save screen. The suite also enables you save as a sprite for use in programs, resize it and distort it around a sphere. You can download it from my web site.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Lenerz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Easyptr > > On 19 Nov 2002, at 20:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote: > > > > > Anyone have any experience of saving and restoring screen areas with > > Easyptr under GD2? Can it be made to work reliably or not? > > > > I had a quick go and could get it to load (L_WSA) a mode 32 PIC file > > and display it (using WSARS) as long as the PIC file and the current > > screen mode were the same, > > I don't know about Easyptr, but if it uses the underlying PI features, > then this is correct - it saves and restores screen areas and > expects them to be in the same screen mode when restoring as > when saving. > > > i.e. mode 32 pictures could only be displayed in mode 32, a mode 0 (QL > > 4 colour) pic could not be displayed in mode 32 for example, which was > > probably predictable. > > yup. > > > If anyone knows more about this, let me know to save me wasting too > > much time on something which can't be done reliably yet. (I'm trying > > to write a simple PIC and SCR graphics viewer for Launchpad using > > Easyptr). > > No, that wouldn't really work with these OS (PI) calls, if the images > to be displayed aren't of the same screen mode. You would need > some kind of conversion program. I can't remember whether the scr > format stores the screen format/mode with the file or not - if you > need that info, I can find out. > > > What I'm afraid of is a scenario like: I find it only works on QPC2 > > for example as it's the only GD2 system I have to test it on at the > > moment! > If, again, it uses the underlying OS calls, then is should work on > any machine as well as on QPC. > > > It seems to work at first glance, but it's my first significant foray > > into Easyptr versus GD2, so any advice gratefully received! > > I have always foun that GD2 doesn't really change anything for > programs that aren't aware of it, so that shouldn't be too much of a > problem. > > Wolfgang
