Hi does anyone know where i can find a tutorial or any type of help on loading and displaying a pcx file in direct draw?

Well, just steal some generic PCX code and either
load it into a buffer or draw it with DirectX. All
the DOS game programming books and lots of pages
like cdrom.com or simtel.net will have the code.

You mean like this????

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

void PCX_Load(char *filename, pcx_picture_ptr image,int enable_palette)
{
// this function loads a pcx file into a picture structure, the actual image
// data for the pcx file is decompressed and expanded into a secondary buffer
// within the picture structure, the separate images can be grabbed from this
// buffer later. also the header and palette are loaded

FILE *fp;
int num_bytes,index;
long count;
unsigned char data;
char far *temp_buffer;

// open the file

fp = fopen(filename,"rb");

// load the header

temp_buffer = (char far *)image;

for (index=0; index<128; index++)
{
temp_buffer[index] = (char)getc(fp);
} // end for index

// load the data and decompress into buffer

count=0;

while(count<=SCREEN_WIDTH * SCREEN_HEIGHT)
{
// get the first piece of data

data = (unsigned char)getc(fp);

// is this a rle?

if (data>=192 && data<=255)
{
// how many bytes in run?

num_bytes = data-192;

// get the actual data for the run

data = (unsigned char)getc(fp);

// replicate data in buffer num_bytes times

while(num_bytes-->0)
{
image->buffer[count++] = data;

} // end while

} // end if rle
else
{
// actual data, just copy it into buffer at next location

image->buffer[count++] = data;

} // end else not rle

} // end while

// move to end of file then back up 768 bytes i.e. to begining of palette

fseek(fp,-768L,SEEK_END);

// load the pallete into the palette

for (index=0; index<256; index++)
{
// get the red component

image->palette[index].red = (unsigned char)(getc(fp) >> 2);

// get the green component

image->palette[index].green = (unsigned char)(getc(fp) >> 2);

// get the blue component

image->palette[index].blue = (unsigned char)(getc(fp) >> 2);

} // end for index

fclose(fp);

// change the palette to newly loaded palette if commanded to do so

if (enable_palette)
{

// for each palette register set to the new color values

for (index=0; index<256; index++)
{

Set_Palette_Register(index,(RGB_color_ptr)&image->palette[index]);

} // end for index

} // end if change palette

} // end PCX_Load

damn i can't get this!!! ok in the code above, the image data is taken from the file and stored in the unsigned char data, right? if so then how to i put this data on a Direct Draw surface?

i also don't quite understand what was done with the pcx_picture_ptr image?

does anyone else have any source code that's not done in dos, but directx?


Edited by - +AA_970+ on 1/15/00 12:04:38 PM

ok i think i understand the code now, but i still don''t know how to transfer the image data to a direct draw surface.