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AppGameKit Classic Chat / AGK caching images

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tessoft
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Posted: 6th Apr 2012 15:42
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Hello,

is there an internal image cache system - for example loading an image for one sprite is reused if I try to load the same image for again?

So, how many times the image "test.png" will be loaded in the next fragment of code:

agk::LoadImage(1, "test.png");
agk::LoadImage(2, "test.png");
agk::LoadImage(3, "test.png");

Thank you!
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Paul Johnston
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Posted: 7th Apr 2012 02:18
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The image will be loaded 3 times.

When we release image manipulation commands you would be able to modify the contents of an image ID so an image cache would be difficult to implement.
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victordavion
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To avoid this type of situation, I usually tend to load my images into a global array (or std::<map> if you desire) and access from App.ImageArray.

If you have a ton of media that you'd prefer to dynamically load, you could always load on demand for that particular gamestate, or if you're using the std::<map> option, just run a quick
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polomint
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Ahh, that's a good way to do things, I'll use that from now on,

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tessoft
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Thanks for the useful information!
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