From: David Lipman Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: graphics question Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 02:28:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.36.42 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT earthlink DOT net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 992312896 158.252.36.42 (Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:28:16 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:28:16 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:26:15 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. I'm an entry-level, beginner programmer. I've been trying to teach myself the basics of graphics and game programming by reading tutorials and source code that I've found at various places throughout the internet. In some of the example source code I've been looking over latley I've seen examples of programs that 'read in' a picture by looping through numbers (data) in an array. Basically there will be an array at the top of the code something like: const byte BIT[200] = {0, 0, 2, 3, 4, 6, 0, 0, ... } and so on up to 199 elements (0-199). Then there will be a loop later in the code that reads these numbers from the array BIT and puts them to the screen (using a Putpixel() or something similar). Anyway, my question is this: from what program do these people get these numbers stored in the original arrays from? In other words, could anyone recommend any shareware or freeware programs on the net that convert a graphic picture to a series of numbers (data) that can be stored in (and read back from) an array. Just for general information, I'm using C, C++, and some assembly language. Also programs like Turbo C++, MASM, TASM, DJGPP, and Allegro. My OS is Windows95 but I'm mostly writing code for use on DOS. Any help or suggestions with my 'graphic-conversion' problem would be greatly appreciated. Thaks much.