OpenEuphoria

Re: to Mr.Riggins and Mr.Cuny

• Posted by Todd Riggins <triggins at AIRMAIL.NET> Sep 12, 1999
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Talvitie wrote:
>
> I checked out Exotica's latest version and I must say that those demos were
> very impressive! You've done great job, Todd, but one question:
> is it possible to write the whole screen
> once(put_pixel{x,y,Sequence_of_colors})?
> and another: is put_pixel{x,y,color} as fast as ScrBuffer[place]=color where
> ScrBuffer is sequence in main program. if put_pixel is much slower then I'd
> rather write the whole screen once. But, if it's almost or as fast then I could
> write pixels directly without using any buffer in my main prog.

Thanks for the feedback, Talvitie. :)

The put_pixel routine is written in 'C' language and not in assembly
whereas its a fast it's going to get for my experience until I learn
assembly. :) Also, it only plots one pixel at x,y and is not able
to do a sequence of colors.
I've included some routines in the lastest Exotica( SURFACE_PITCH,
SURFACE_POINTER and BPP) which should help in mem_copy a screen
buffer to a DirectX surface. This is where I need help with.
If you or somebody else can provide me a very basic example
on how Euphoria can mem_copy a bitmap to the screen(Dos example is
what I'm expecting here) then I can continue testing out the new
routines and see if I can get it to work.

- Todd Riggins