animimage trouble...

i try doing the following, for creating a pixelfont with variable colors: (my png-s are black on white ground, one for the outline of the font and one for filling)

Global FontA = LoadImage("font1.png",120,108
Global FontB = LoadImage("font2.png",120,108)

Global xFontA = CreateImage(120,108)
Global xFontB = CreateImage(120,108)
Global mFont = CreateImage(12,12,90)

MaskImage(xFontB,255,255,255)
MaskImage(xFontA,255,255,255)


Function ColorFont(c1%,c2%)
	
SetBuffer ImageBuffer(xFontA)
ClsColor GetR(c1%),GetG(c1%),GetB(c1%)
Cls

	DrawImage FontA,0,0

SetBuffer ImageBuffer(xFontB)
ClsColor GetR(c2%),GetG(c2%),GetB(c2%)
Cls

	DrawImage FontB,0,0

SetBuffer ImageBuffer(mFont)
 
	DrawImage xFontA,0,0
	DrawImage xFontB,0,0


SetBuffer(BackBuffer())
	
End Function

The Problem is, i need the mFont as AnimImage but when I run it like this it only draws on the first frame. if i use for-next loops to draw each frame seperatly it gets really slow..

my questions:
can i convert an normal image to an animimage-strip?
are there possibilitys to work with animimage as normal images, ignoring frame-separation?
does anybody know a faster solution to solve this?

greetings
GrrBrr

P.S. Uh, Oh, sorry for my bad english...

oh, theres sth wrong.. of course the correct syntax is:
[coding]
Global FontA = LoadImage("font1.png")
Global FontB = LoadImage("font2.png")
[/coding]

just copied it wrong in the forum

An 'animimage strip' *is* a normal image.

You need to use LoadAnimImage to load the fonts, then DrawImage image,x,y,frame to draw each character.

I can't make any sense out of what you're trying to achieve with all that CreateImage and Cls stuff, though...?

"for creating a pixelfont with variable colors"

i know how to draw single frames with an animimage. the problem is that i want to realtime change colors in an image without using write or readpixel. my solution is quite fast, but it doesn't work because i can treat an animimage like a normal image.

when i use an imagebuffer on an animimage it takes only the first frame :( :( :(

perhaps now the problem is discribed better.
sorry

Hi GrrBrr

I think I know where youre comin from! Did you know that imagebuffer() has an optional second parameter?

Imagebuffer(image[,frame])

if you set the frame parameter to the letter offset in the string youre trying to display

this is the line that'll need altering:

SetBuffer ImageBuffer(mFont)

hope this helps

Mr Brine

i tried this, but then i need to loop through all letters doing a lot of imagebuffer and drawimage, this is quite slow.
drawing the whole image at once is much faster. but then i can't use it as imagestrip... :(

heres a couple of things that might be causesing problems:

- loadimage / createimage have an optional 'flag' parameter if you aint planning on changing screen resolution mid program then I'd set the flag parameter to 2

- any kind of string manipulation is cpu intensive.

- createimage is cpu intensive.

fontmap = LoadAnimImage ("gfx\font.bmp",8,8,0,91)MaskImage fontmap,255,0,255

; set variables and strings

txt1$="paardje rijden is fijn."

Graphics 640,480,16

; screen building

For count=1 To Len(txt1$)
char$=Mid$(txt1$,count,1)
DrawImage fontmap,x,40,Asc(char$)-32
x=x+8 ; character width
Next


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I was doing some font stuff myself.
See my code above for a powerfull bmp font processing.
the font MUST be ASCII compattible.
have fun!

please read carefully before you post useless information everybody already knows. thank you.

thats not the problem. I KNOW HOW TO USE ANIMIMAGE