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DarkBASIC Discussion / Using .dat files in DBCe

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Sinani201
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2007 00:47
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Is there a possible way to load media from data files? I have tried many things, except none of them have worked.

how do you make a sig?
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Dark Dragon
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2007 03:52
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good question. only i dont have a very good awnser..
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luke810
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How do you mean? That doesn't make much sense.
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Dark Dragon
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2007 04:19 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2007 04:20
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well i know you can load dats as an array and use e'm.....but thats not what he ment....right?
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Sinani201
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2007 06:33
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Quote: "How do you mean? That doesn't make much sense. "


I meant files that end with .dat.

how do you make a sig?
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luke810
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Well you can open .dat files and extract information that could be used to generate media using memblocks if thats what you mean.
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Latch
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@Sinani201

You have to know what the format of the data is inside the file. The extension doesn't really matter so when you say a .dat file, that doesn't necessarily mean only string information. You could have pixel information stored in a file ending with .dat in which case (depending on the color depth) you might read back each pixel as a long integer (or DWORD) - 4 bytes at a time.

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Sinani201
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2007 21:28 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2007 21:29
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I'm trying to read bitmaps. Although, I'm not very good with memblocks . Here's an example data file. It's got an image in it called image.bmp.

Quote: "Well you can open .dat files and extract information that could be used to generate media using memblocks if thats what you mean."


Erm... yeah, I'm trying to extract media with memblocks.

how do you make a sig?

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Sinani201
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If I'm using memblocks... should I use make image from memblock or make bitmap from memblock? Or does it matter at all?????

how do you make a sig?
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if you are saving the bitmap then make bitmap from memblock, if you are using it in a game then make image from memblock.


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@Sinani201

This might help you with some structure info:

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=107807&b=10

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