hey that's pretty cool =p

Hehe, Ness, I hadn't thought of that. With Silhouette, there would be no point in using fonts with more than one color. Now if only someone would updated that PrintStringAlpha function... it was spiffy. I think they fixed TextHeight and TextWidth returning the same value, so it would be easy to update it.

edit: In fact, you know what would REALLY be spiffy? A function that would load TrueType/OpenType fonts and display text with them. I tried looking up the specifications once for TrueType and got pretty much nowhere fast.

Quote:Originally posted by zonker6666

Rage if you ran the following line ..

PrintString(0,0,screen,0,str(random(100,0-100)));

you would see that it does not ;)

if you ran PrintString(0,0,screen,0,str(random(0-100,100))); you would see that it does. The only condition is that the first variable has to be the smaller of the two.

zonker6666: Couldn't you just have gone:

int rand(int a, int b)


{


	return Random(min(a,b),max(a,b));


}

[Zip: Added min() and max() to vault, and don't post such wide pre-s in future, you little varmit!]

I know I've been a little slow on adding all, this, been coding for ovk. Will do it tonight. Beni - was verge's string handling not slow enough for you already without having to for-loop each and every chr into dma? :D But I can certainly see uses for this... saving to file etc... just not runtime. :D
Oh, and I'll be adding my vector to the Code Vault, so when I do that you can check yours against it and add stuff if you like.

Zip

Yes, I know that Aen (I THINK) made a TTfont to verge font converter. It's sitting here in my folder now. The main problem is that verge fonts, when they are scaled, look REALLY ugly. The nice thing about TT fonts is that you can scale them to pretty much any size, because they are stored as vector information. I don't want to convert a font 20 times just to be able to have a good looking font I can display at different sizes. The verge font functions seem really limiting to me in that regard.

Wow Tom, you're right, that should definately be in the code vault. Not only have you got a duplication of MixColor() but you've used it to write the *SLOWEST* rendering function I've ever seen.
On this computer, the SetPixel() overhead for rendering a 1024x768 image is 0.61 seconds. Ask your func. to do the same size it takes 16.90 seconds! I know that's bigger than you'd ever use, but I was getting a second delay rendering a 240x180 image, so thought I'd scale up to see the difference. If I make the interesting optimisation of removing the 's' from MixColours(), it becomes a much more reasonable 1.32 seconds. Hell, I can render that and write it as a bitmap in less than 3.
Fun bit of trivia, vec added MixColor() in the build released on 02/22/04, your demo is listed as uploaded on 2004-02-21. :)

Zip

Nice. Rage's func:

Add a plain PrintString() underneath:


Zip

a little lengthy and coded somewhat lazily but ...

Will read through the .vc files of a project
actually any file as long as its in the filelist file
in the following format ...

3
system.vc
file1.vc
file2.vc

(3 is the number of files of course)

All files 'must' have the line

// eof

at the very end.

It will generate an html list of the files along with function definitions + any // comments.

void FunctionList(string filelist, string reportfile)


{





	int fptr=FileOpen(reportfile, FILE_WRITE);


	int fptr2;


	int fptr3=FileOpen(filelist, FILE_READ);


	int NumFiles;


	int done;


	int i;


	string line_;


	string nextfile;


	if(!fptr3)


		Exit('Error opening the file list for reading.');


	if(!fptr)


		Exit('Error opening the report file for writing.');





	NumFiles=val(FileReadLn(fptr3));





	for(i=0;i<NumFiles;i++)


	{


		nextfile=FileReadLn(fptr3);


		FileWriteln(fptr, '<a href='#' + nextfile + ''>' + nextfile + '</a><br>');


	}





	FileSeekLine(fptr3, 1);


	FileWriteln(fptr, '<br><br>');


	for(i=0;i<NumFiles;i++)


	{








		nextfile=FileReadLn(fptr3);


		


		fptr2=FileOpen(nextfile, FILE_READ);


		if(!fptr2)


			Exit('Error opening ' + nextfile + ' for reading.');








		FileWriteln(fptr, '<a name='#' + nextfile + ''>' + nextfile + '</b><br><table border=1><tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>');


		done=0;


	while(!done)


	{


		line_=FileReadLn(fptr2);





		if(!strcmp(left(line_, 4), 'void') || !strcmp(left(line_, 3), 'int') || !strcmp(left(line_, 6), 'string'))


		{


			if(!strcmp(right(line_, 1), ')'))


			{


				FileWriteln(fptr, '<i><b>' + line_ + '</b></i><br>');


			}


		}


		else if(!strcmp(line_, '// eof'))


		{


			done=1;


		}


		else if(!strcmp(left(line_, 2), '//'))


		{


			FileWriteln(fptr, '<table><tr><td width=30>&nbsp;</td><td width=320><i><font color=#555555>' + right(line_, len(line_)-2) + '</font></i></td></tr></table><br>');


		}


	}


		FileWriteln(fptr,'</td></tr></table><br>');


		FileClose(fptr2);





	}


	FileClose(fptr3);


	FileClose(fptr);





	Messagebox('Code documentation created!');


}

Vertical gradient function.

void VGradientRect(int X, int Y, int W, int H, int Color1, int Color2, int steps, int dest)
{
int R1,G1,_B1;
int R2,G2,_B2;
int Rinc, Ginc, Binc;
int Vinc=abs(Y-(Y+H))/steps;
int i;

R1=GetR(Color1);
G1=GetG(Color1);
_B1=GetB(Color1);

R2=GetR(Color2);
G2=GetG(Color2);
_B2=GetB(Color2);

Rinc=abs(R1-R2)/steps;
Binc=abs(_B1-_B2)/steps;
Ginc=abs(G1-G2)/steps;

for(i=0;i<steps;i++)
{

RectFill(X,Y+(Vinc*i), X+W, Y+(Vinc*(i+1)), RGB(R1+(Rinc*i),G1+(Ginc*i),_B1+(Binc*i)), dest);

}


}