cool a central place to put those is cool

[Zip: quicksort done]

Here or in the talkback of the document.

Dude, has anyone told you that function has 10 parameters? Unless I'm majorly missing something, I don't see how this is better than:

int section = ImageShell(srcx1, srcy1, srcx2-srcx1, srcy2-srcy1, source);


ScaleBlit(x, y, scalew, scaleh, section, dest);


FreeImage(section);

You know ImageShell is just a pointer, not a duplication of data, right?

Zip

The parasing overhead if the vc code (even in 'compiled' form) is much larger than any code vec is running his end, unless it involves shifting large amounts of data around. This is why doing 320 little blits is so much slower than doing one big blit (as in your question earlier). It's also why andy laughs at me using the bitshift operators - there's really no difference in an interpreted language like this.

Zip

The parasing overhead if the vc code (even in 'compiled' form) is much larger than any code vec is running his end, unless it involves shifting large amounts of data around. This is why doing 320 little blits is so much slower than doing one big blit (as in your question earlier). It's also why andy laughs at me using the bitshift operators - there's really no difference in an interpreted language like this.


Noted.

I really like that function, Ness (I'm happpppppy). This code vault thing is a great idea.

Could that SuperPrintText be sped up if instead of doing a color replace, it worked in two stages: Printstring the text into a blank image, do a Silhouette on it to change it to the color you want, change the transcolor to 0, then blit it onto another image that you filled with magic pink, change the transcolor back to magic pink and then blit it? Would the three operations possibly be faster than doing a color search/replace?

It seems like it would be a good addition if you put in a absolute value function. Also, there's a couple more functions that aren't so much simple as they may be essential.

Geronimo's bmp function.
and
Aen's extra big ellipse function for those crazy people using an abnormally large ellipses.

and lastly, the line function which can be used for so much more than just drawing a line.
[Zip: added, see LineAgain()]


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and that's my contribution! Hope they're actually what you are looking for.

Print strings in color - a bit slimmer than Ness' implementation.


[Zip: added, see PrintStringCol()]

Been looking around for some functions I find particularly useful ... so here come a couple more.


// returns a random number between n1 and n2..
// either of those numbers can be a negative
// RandomRange(0-10,10);
// RandomRange(10,0-10);
// RandomRange(1,100);
// would all work.
int RandomRange(int n1, int n2)
{
if(n1>n2)
return random(0, n1-n2)+n2;
else
return random(0, n2-n1)+n1;
}


/// a die roll ... D(3,6) = 3d6
int D(int rolls, int numsides)
{
int retval=0;
int i;
int temprollval;

for(i=0;i<rolls;i++)
{
temprollval=RR(1, numsides);
retval+=temprollval;
}
return retval;
}


// A nicer way to roll a die ...
// examples of use ...
// RollD('1d4');
// RollD('5d6+10');

int RollD(string droll)
{
int retval;
retval=D(val(GetToken(droll, 'd', 0)),val(GetToken(droll, 'd', 1)))+val(GetToken(droll, '+', 1));
return retval;
}

Rage if you ran the following line ..

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

you would see that it does not ;)