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To use the macros, you first need to have a QPTR license. I don't think it's still on sale, and I don't think it's available for download anywhere.Silvester wrote:Martin_Head wrote:
But of course, to use the macros you first need a good understanding of QPtr and its data arrays
With the limits imposed by the QL hardware you have to make shortcuts. SMSQ/E on the other hand can convert sprites between the different colour modes. The converted sprite is cached because the systems were/are still too slow to make the conversion live.Martin_Head wrote:I thought, Surely the Window Manager would use some standard bit pattern, and then convert it to the correct form for the hardware it's running on.
If you use the system palette then no, you only need to do one definition. Except for mode 8 maybe, but that's because of the different pixel size, not the colours.If I am writing a PE/Window manager program that I want to run in mode 4, and mode 8, and maybe GD2 modes. Do I need to write 2, or 3 different Window Definitions, one for each screen mode.
I'm at a conference and don't have access to my files. But that sounds awfully complicated. EasySource I think outputs the needed value, so I'd really advice for designing the menu in EasyMenu and convert that to assembler using EasySource.As far as working out how much memory to reserve for the Window Working Definition, and Status areas. I was thinking about writing a routine that would allocate an area of memory, fill it with something like $55.
This may be a bit off a side step but looking at the display.txt, I cannot find how the various GD2 palette modes (3,7,15,31) should work. Where is this palette located inside the sprite, how many bytes are used for each colour sample?mk79 wrote: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?
It indeed does. It emits symbols for both the working definition and the status area length.mk79 wrote:EasySource I think outputs the needed value, so I'd really advice for designing the menu in EasyMenu and convert that to assembler using EasySource.
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worklen equ $00000210
statlen equ $00000060
The macros included with QPtr are exactly the same as included with the current SMSQ/E sources. They are WMAN macros. QPtr is the Basic toolkit (bin file).tofro wrote: To use the macros, you first need to have a QPTR license. I don't think it's still on sale, and I don't think it's available for download anywhere.
Tobias
The palette is not per sprite, but global for the whole OS. It's the same you get when using COLOUR_PAL in basic. You can redefine it using the PALETTE_8 command http://superbasic-manual.readthedocs.io ... #palette-8. Of course this makes it pretty much impossible to known what colour you actually end with as a developer, so I think nobody has ever used it in practice.BSJR wrote: This may be a bit off a side step but looking at the display.txt, I cannot find how the various GD2 palette modes (3,7,15,31) should work. Where is this palette located inside the sprite, how many bytes are used for each colour sample?
Or is this one of the "Options" that was never worked out?
Thanks for checking. I'm now united again with my laptop and just checked QPtr, there the size of the area is determined automatically using the SETWRK macro.tofro wrote:It indeed does. It emits symbols for both the working definition and the status area length.mk79 wrote:EasySource I think outputs the needed value, so I'd really advice for designing the menu in EasyMenu and convert that to assembler using EasySource.
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worklen equ $00000210 statlen equ $00000060
Um, may I ask where in SW Germany?Location: SW Germany
mk79 wrote:tofro wrote:Um, may I ask where in SW Germany?Location: SW Germany
And I thought I was the last active QL user in the regiontofro wrote:Stuttgartmk79 wrote:Um, may I ask where in SW Germany?
Grüßle,
Tobias
