PNG image as resource

[lamer]

Hi all!
How can I add a PNG image as resource?
How can I then load this resouce and use it as bitmap?

Thank you

[PBrennick]

lamer,
You can do something like the following:

IDB_MAN         RCDATA  DISCARDABLE "Images\\Man.png"

This is taken from the Sokoban example and uses the PNG library.  I forget who wrote it.  I am including the project for you to examine.

Paul


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[lamer]

Paul,
Thanks, I've passed the first level :bg :bg :bg
But all this jazz for reading pitiable PNG image? ::)
BMP is three times more, but needs only one line of code...

Thanks again

[PBrennick]

lamer,
That is because bmp is supported directly by the resource compiler.  png is too new for that.  Why not convert the image to bmp?

Paul

[lamer]

Paul,
Just because of size.
BMP that weighs about 700 K could be saved as PNG that weighs about 170 K.

[PBrennick]

Lamer,
What about gif file format?

Paul

[lamer]

Paul,
Too poor quality.

[roticv]

It's from this thread, but the attachment is no longer there.

http://board.win32asmcommunity.net/index.php?topic=12524.0

[lamer]

roticv,
It is a bit difficult to understand what they all are speaking about without attachment. :green2
I guess this is Sokoban game?

[PBrennick]

Victor,
Thanks for the link. 

EDIT:  I have removed an incorrect statement about Spook's forum and I thank Victor for the correction..

Paul

[roticv]

Paul,

Actually your claim is false. It should be "all attachments on the forum before it was hacked into" was gone.  :toothy

[PBrennick]

Victor,
As usual, you steer me in the correct direction.  I appreciate your nice way of pointing out my mistakes.  Sorry about that.  I still wish that those zips would be made available to us though, I know they must still exist.  The zips on Hutch's old forum, for example, were not lost.  He allowed me to archive them and they are available to all as a link on Ghirai's website.  Why can't we do something similar with the old zips from Hiroshimator's old forum?  I would be willing to archive them.

Paul

[Vortex]

Hi lamer,

Ernest Murph coded a very nice image library. It can handle jpg, bmp,gif,wmf files. Here is my example to display jpg images from memory. It uses the image library.

http://www.masmforum.com/simple/index.php?topic=1720.msg13242#msg13242

[lamer]

Vortex,
Pretty nice, thanks!