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From: svermeulen%Ins.MRC.AdhocNet.CA@UNCAEDU.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: IFF ILBM File to Gadgets etc...
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Date: 18 Apr 88 16:45:21 GMT
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|In article <8804150328.AA26808@jade.berkeley.edu> SLMYQ@USU.BITNET writes:
|>Everyone seems to be missing something.  DeluxePaint brushes are standard
|>ILBM files!!!  Which means you can use the "ILBMDump" program that comes

This is very true, also there are no limits as to the UPPER LIMIT for
picture sizes (appart from about 65K pixels wide and high :-).  A
convenient size for laser printing is 2400x3204...

|>with all the IFF junk to convert brushes directly to C code.  It's
|>much easier, to say the least, and it can create sprite and attached
|>sprite formats also.
|>
|        Like most programs from EA, ILBMDump doesn't work, either.  It dumps
|BOBs just great, but sucks major hose when trying to dump anything else it
|claims to support (sprites and attached sprites don't work at all).  Since
|the program is written in obfuscated Lattice C, I have not yet bothered to
|dive in and find out why the program is broken.  Note that I have not
|bothered to recompile the program from the sources; I'm using the
|distribution binary.
|

You might want to check out VGad (Fish 137) which will take two pictures
(normal state and selected state) of your complete window and then quickly
convert these to Gadget and Image structures just by boxing the appropriate
areas.

|>Just a thought...has anyone tried loading a brush as a picture?  Or a picture
|>as a brush?
|>
|        I once loaded a picture as a brush in DPaint.  Worked great.
|

Also works in Express Paint.  Again there is no difference in the ILBM part
of a Picture or Brush file, DPaint may store some other info about
perspective or maybe colour cycling in one but not the other.

|
|Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape  ihnp4!pacbell -\

               Stephen Vermeulen
               Author: Express Paint