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The sprite format is pretty well documented. QL format in the Qptr manual, extended colour sprites for example here: http://www.kilgus.net/smsqe/display.txt Not sure if the latter is incorporated into the new Qptr manual. Any specific questions? This may be a bit off a side step but looking at the ...

... is there a manual with examples ? (not the internal docs). The download at http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/database/index.html is v2.12. The Quanta library version (disk SP07) is 2.13, the most recent and has all Quill docs and example Basic files although according to the Filelist_doc a few docs are m...

Bob, SQRview did the trick. Took me a few min to figure out how it works, but it was able to convert the BMP image to PIC. I then used FPIC_LOAD to load the image to the screen. Now that I have it working with a test image, I can press forward. Thanks, Tim Swenson Good to see this worked. I tested ...

Thanks Silvester, I'll have to give this a try. My first step was getting an JPEG image over to the QL. I created an image that was 200 pixels wide (and almost 200 high). I save it as .jpg and as .bmp. I first tried BMP from Dilwyns site. That seems to lock up when I tried to do the convert. I got ...

Actually DiskMate 5 is already on Dilwyn's site :D Maybe we need a note against the demo version on http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/demos/ to where the full version can be found - http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/files/ There are in fact, 2 versions of the program on that page - the original and one which was alter...

Hi All, DBAS is the excellent database engine written by David W. Howells and used in my SuQcess database programs. But recently a problem came to light while using DBAS on SMSQmulator. It appears that field names can go missing when a lot of them are defined. My tests revealed that the FLNAME funct...

DISA was written by Albin Hessler - I wonder what happened to him? I don't know how many DISAs there are but mine is DISA3 and was written by Jochen Hassler and was in the JMS catalogue. From Marcel Kilgus's blog on EasyPTR I understood that Albin and Jochen know each other well and are two separat...

Has Jochen changed any parameters? Does other programs also have problems with v8? The item that doesn't work in this "add object" case is LIST_SELECT. The trick I used, is to choose "add folder" and change that to "object'" in the QDT menu itself. In Menu_rext v8 Joch...

>frame% parameter but the FPNG command doesn't accept this parameter. Yes, this should have been removed (just re-wrote GIF text). Thanks Silvester for clearing that up. There is a lot more to PNG (Gamma etc) which also is rarely used. Perhaps when the base version of Photon is covered I can look a...

Thank you Silvester for making these tools, and Dilwyn for distributing. A quick test shows that it's working very well on QPC2 and much faster then the 'C' based options I used before. Once I have finalized the addition to my SQRview viewer I will also test it on Aurora but do not expect any proble...