Re: BMPs again:)

[stephen healy <steven.h@e-garfield.com>]

Thanks for the quick answers!  Now the reason I'm so concerned with speed is that I want to do an Action side-scoller game and from my experience with LoadImage() after loading about 2 128x128 images it drops to about 5 fps.  I could be doing it wrong though.  Like i said before if anyone knows any more tutorials that would be great.  Thanks for the FAQ by the way.  If you've been able to get LoadImage() to blit pretty fast please tell me how you did it.  Thanks again.

--- Christian Gyrling <christian@gyrling.com> wrote:
>If you are so concerned with speed, I would suggest to write a program that
>loads BMPs and stores them the exact way you are storing them in memory.
>That way you can read a file in no-time. So, read the BMP into your own
>struct and save that struct as is directly to a file.
>
>Just a word of caution - "Don't optimize what don't need optimization"
>
>/C
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: stephen healy <steven.h@e-garfield.com>
>To: <gameprogrammer@topica.com>
>Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:09 PM
>Subject: BMPs again:)
>
>
>> Sorry for asking such a boring question that has probably been asked and
>answered a million times already but here goes.  I've read all those
>tutorials on loading .bmp's and they all use the slow method of reading in
>bitmaps using the LoadImage() function and all the windows garbage.  I would
>like to know how to load one by reading it in.  Any good tutorials would
>help too.  I'm using DirectX and I plan on using fread() but if you know a
>better reading function that's fine with me.
>> Thanks again.
>>
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