How can i load a .PNG sprite ??

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 3:29 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by David.

Hi. Can i load somehow a .PNG image ? Just found informations for uncompressed images (.BMP) in the help.. Hope i can do that somehow.. cuz PNG is sooo much better/smaler...

Thanx.
David.

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 4:14 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by TheBeck.

You need to download a 3rd party DLL as PureBasic has no native PNG support.

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngaptk.html

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 5:04 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by David.

Thanks. Will try it out.

MD

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 9:48 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Andre.

Anyway, would be nice if the PB image + sprite libs could get native PNG support. PNG should be the best solution (good compression, no licence restrictions) beside the standard BMP support.

Regards
AndrÃ©

*** German PureBasic Support ***

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Tue Feb 04, 2003 5:01 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by WolfgangS.

Hi !
And it provides "empty" pixels like gif.
Check this: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
And this ... http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

MFG
:)WolfgangS