BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 03-18-92 (15:11) Number: 105
From: SCOTT DRYSDALE Refer#: NONE
To: SCOTT GREEN Recvd: NO
Subj: Re: Graphics Screens Conf: (2) Quik_Bas
Hello,
There is a file on all quickshare points called "READGIF.ARJ" and
in it is the QB source to load a GIF. Autodesk animator comes with
a convert programme called convert that will convert almost ANY format,
TIFF, Ega GIF, MAC, PCX, amiga formats, to a 320x200x256 gif. Once you
have the 320x200x256 gif you use READGIF.BAS to load it. Then instead
of just endeing the programme or going on to another gif, you BSAVE it
under:
DEF SEG = &HA000
BSAVE "filename.BLD",0, 65535
Now at any time when you want to load the GIF instead of going through the
slow process you use:
BLOAD "filename.BLD
You don't even need the GIF to do this. It's really
quick, but it tends to take up alot of disk space. One
problem is however the PALETTE. You have to save the
information to a different file if the PALETTE is not the
quick
basic default, and then load the info, then PALETTE USING. However if
your skilled enough you could put the PALETTE info right
in the .BLD file, and take it out just before BLOADing,
which saves having two files.
The whole idea of this rather then loading the GIF slowly, load the
.BLD quickly, and that it does in comparison. Some drawbacks are your GIF
can't be bigger then 32k, which is a medium sized GIF like "MOUSE.GIF",
still I've used it in one of my VGA programmes, and you wouldn't notice.
If you haven't tryed this before I'd suggest doing so as it may open some
doors for ya' like it did for me.
--- Maximus 2.00
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