freeimage for powerbasic

[kryton9]

Guys, I found code for freeimage to be used with powebasic. I thought maybe one of you guys could then easilly port it to thinBasic.
We can then use all sorts of image files easilly.

http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/sou...tml#PowerBasic

There is a c++ example of using any format as a texture in opengl. I just put in a png into the same code and it worked automatically. REally cool example to see how easy it is.

http://www.codesampler.com/usersrc/usersrc_6.htm

[Michael Hartlef]

Thanks Kent, but I have no time for this. Maybe you can do it with C++. Would be a good training for you.

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi kryton9,

good idea,
I had some unhappy events here so I am a bit paralyzed for any creative stuff for some time.
But I am bookmarking this thread and will have a look when my mind will be clear.


Thanks,
Petr

[ErosOlmi]

The best places where to look at for Power Basic souces is Power Basic form: http://www.powerbasic.com/support/fo...assCookie=true
Maybe not so user friendly but for sure a great source of capable people.

If nothing there, the second place to look at is José Roca web site at http://www.jose.it-berater.org/ and in particular his forum at http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smfforum/index.php
José always make a great and professional job, all for free. In particular his knowledge of in/out of COM interfaces is far behind the common everage. You will found there a lot or COM wrapper for Power Basic.

Regarding FreeImage header and interface: http://www.jose.it-berater.org/smffo...php?topic=82.0
The biggest problem with FreeImage library is that it uses a lot of callbacks to handle many functionalities so not so easy to port into thinBasic directly but a wrapper dll module I think will be needed.

Regards
Eros

[Michael Hartlef]

Hi kryton9,

good idea,
I had some unhappy events here so I am a bit paralyzed for any creative stuff for some time.
But I am bookmarking this thread and will have a look when my mind will be clear.


Thanks,
Petr

I hope it is something that can be fixed. Best wishes from my side.

[kryton9]

@Petr As Mike said, hope you are well and that it all turns out OK!

@Mike I was thinking of making it a project for me to do in c++, but when I saw the existing powerbasic wrapper
I thought it would be really easy for you guys with powerbasic to make it a dll. But apprently that is not the case from
what Eros is saying.

@Eros I will check out the site for sure. I have seen his posts on other forums and he is a wiz at that sort of stuff for sure!!