Re: Jiri's Widgets Help
- Posted by Ck Lester <cklester at YAHOO.COM> Nov 20, 2000
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:35:38 +1300, jiri babor <jbabor at PARADISE.NET.NZ> wrote: >Hi, ck, > >> I want to display a bitmap file in a window... Using jiri's widgets, >> how would I go about doing that? > >You can place your bitmap anywhere you like, in a window or directly >on the screen. But be warned, I have not implemented any sort of >clipping so far. You can use the standard display_image(), or one of >several routines built into the widgets that allow you to merge or xor >your images. I'm wanting to display portions of a playfield map, with appropriate scrollbars when required to additional portions of the playfield. I was thinking of putting the playfield map in a window, so the user could custom size and position it. >friendlier version of the widgets is on its way, but I can't. I had a >stupid, dreadful disaster this morning: half asleep I wanted to copy >my working directory on to the floppy to take it to work (for safety I >usually store every thing important on at least two machines), but >instead of typing copy *.* a:\ I typed copy a:\*.*. You guessed it, I >copied an old version from the floppy over the new version. Almost a >week of work up in smoke inside 20 seconds... I feel your pain and I hope you recover quickly... >Btw, I think it was also you talking about cards, shuffling. Have a >look at my deal.ex, a short bridge hand dealer. You will find it in my >Euphoria pages. It's nothing much, just a simple illustration of some >clever techniques of card handling, but it has also the best, fastest >shuffle under the sun...;) I'll have a look! Thanks! ck