Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!proto!joe
From: joe@proto.COM (Joe Huffman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Hexagonal bit maps
Summary: Use Flash Graphics library from Zortech.
Message-ID: <1493@proto.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 91 22:12:34 GMT
References: <26275@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: Prototronics; Sandpoint, Idaho
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In article <26275@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
> I am writing an app that uses an hexagonal map...each hex in the map has
> its own bit map.  I am running into the problem of how to use the Borland
> Graphics interface (actually, ANY graphics library with a getimage/putimage
> type function set) to write the hex bit map on the screen without writing
> into the area of the rectangular bit map outside of the hex....e.g.

[...example deleted...]

This can be done with the graphics library that comes with the Zortech C/C++
compiler for the PC, under DOS, OS/2, and a couple DOS extenders.

Use the fg_drawmatrix() function call.

Further explaination available on request.

disclaimer... I wrote the package.

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joe@proto.com