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The Icon Bar: Programming: ConvertPNG module
 
  ConvertPNG module
  sirbod (07:44 22/5/2012)
  swirlythingy (11:57 22/5/2012)
  arawnsley (12:34 22/5/2012)
  nunfetishist (12:35 22/5/2012)
    sirbod (13:54 22/5/2012)
  swirlythingy (13:12 22/5/2012)
    gerph (19:00 13/9/2012)
 
Jon Abbott Message #120448, posted by sirbod at 07:44, 22/5/2012
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Does anyone know if the ConvertPNG module is available outside of Select?

I need to display PNG's in the ADFFS GUI and converting to sprites has some advantages.
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Martin Bazley Message #120452, posted by swirlythingy at 11:57, 22/5/2012, in reply to message #120448

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Does anyone know if the ConvertPNG module is available outside of Select?
It isn't. Full stop.

This was a pain when I wrote MBBack too. I eventually managed to get the Iyonix supporting JPEGs as well as sprites by adding a load of custom code for SpriteExtend's JPEG API, but PNGs are a non-starter.
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Andrew Rawnsley Message #120453, posted by arawnsley at 12:34, 22/5/2012, in reply to message #120448
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(very tongue-in-cheek) so now, when you're bored with work on ADFFS, you can start on a clean-room, open-source implementation of the Select image rendering routines...

I do have a png->sprite command line convertor that you're welcome to use, but no source, since it was developed externally, I'm afraid.
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Rob Kendrick Message #120454, posted by nunfetishist at 12:35, 22/5/2012, in reply to message #120448
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Use libpng? I seem to recall it's quite simple to drive to convert things to a Sprite-compatible stride and pixel ordering.
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Martin Bazley Message #120456, posted by swirlythingy at 13:12, 22/5/2012, in reply to message #120448

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Incidentally, if the ImageFileRender and ImageFileConvert modules were to go down in flames along with Select, I can't say I'd be entirely sorry. They are truly horrible to work with. The APIs would be unpleasant even if the modules weren't bugged beyond belief, prone to undocumented behaviours (some of which vary by version) and even incomplete in some areas. I've had many, many headaches and wasted afternoons trying to work out why sprites weren't coming out the size I told them to be rendered at and teasing out implementation quirks which only manifested with certain combinations of DPI and pixel extent.

Even if they weren't locked into a dead branch, I'd probably be recommending you used something else.
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Jon Abbott Message #120457, posted by sirbod at 13:54, 22/5/2012, in reply to message #120454
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Oh well...another thing to add to the list of things I need to code.
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Charles Justin Ferguson Message #121072, posted by gerph at 19:00, 13/9/2012, in reply to message #120456
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Thanks. Always nice to hear feedback.
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