Re: 16.8 million color euphoria sequence loading
- Posted by mindwalker Apr 12, 2010
- 1785 views
I'm curious - why DOS? It certainly isn't easy to write DOS graphics, you'll have a hard time finding anyone who will want to run your programs, and there are much better graphics libraries available for both Windows and Linux.
I haven't made the jump to Linux yet, so the answer to why DOS: no title bar, no menu bar, no status bar, no scroll bar, no windows resizing, no windows controlled color palettes, no windows APIs, etc. I want to control my program and the same goes for my graphics. The only problem is that I don't have the background currently to load the many different file formats myself. So I was hoping there was existing code for loading the picture files into Euphoria sequences.
As far as "you'll have a hard time finding anyone who will want to run your programs", I am writing for my use/enjoyment only, so that is not an issue. I have already had many hours of enjoyment running my pixlpowr.ex program, where 255 colors "compete" for screen ownership. This program has amused me for at least 7 years.
Do any of these graphic packages allow you to manipulate the pixels themselves? For instance I wish to take a picture, suck all the red,green,blue out of it and redistribute those colors at maximum intensity into just a few pixels (say at the top, bottom and left of the picture). I also want to be able to totally randomize the placement of the pixels within the picture.
