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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Centering a Bitmap

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Dave J
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2003 14:40
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I've loaded a bitmap straight onto the screen, just by using "Load Bitmaap [filepath", and I was wondering if there was a simple way I could position or center it on the screen rather then it being in the top left corner?

I can't just enlarge the bitmap and put the image in the center because I'm allowing the user to change the display mode. Is there an actual command? Because I didn't see one in the list lol.
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Attreid
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I don't think that there's a command to do it, but ....
if you give those coordinates, it should wirk with every display mode



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Dave J
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Posted: 24th Feb 2003 06:21
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Thanks, I wasn't sure if you were able to position bitmaps at all.

Additionaly, I was wondering if you could only load bitmaps? Ie, can you load Gifs or PNG's because Bitmaps take up an awful lot of space.

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Posted: 24th Feb 2003 12:47
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Yes you can load PNG, JPEG, TGA, etc. (personally, I always use PNG - they are non-lossy, the most compact format and support alpha channels).

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Meh, I use bitmaps. Screw the people with slower computers. Mwa ha ha ha ha ha!!!

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Dave J
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Posted: 25th Feb 2003 07:21
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Yeah, I use PNG too for the same reasons, it's Bitmap quality with GIF's size. =)

Thanks for the answers, and last question (I promise), just so I know I'm not doing anything wrong. The code posted above:



Won't work because you can't use Bitmap Commands on an Image and vice versa, right? If this is true, maybe you should create an 'Image Width/Height' command or 'Paste Bitmap'. It doesn't really matter for me because I just manually inserted the dimensions of the Image but others might need it, I guess you could load the picture as both an image and bitmap but that shouldn't be nescessary.

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