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Screensaver textures

Started by eriel May 20, 2003 at 10:26 PM 3 replies 900+ views

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May 20, 2003 at 10:26 PM

Recently, I have created a screensaver with four texture-mapped, alpha-blended cubes. I got the code from another demo I had created and put it into a screensaver framework. When I ran tested the screensaver, everything was fine except the textures wouldn''t show up -- they were just white. I included the bitmaps in the same directory as the screensaver, c:/windows/system, and I don''t know what''s wrong. What can I do to remedy this situation? Do I have to put the bitmaps in a specific file? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

BriTeg

May 21, 2003 at 10:37 AM

In your code, where are you trying to load the textures from? In other words, what''s the pathname?

eriel

May 21, 2003 at 6:05 PM

I just load the textures with the code

    
texture= LoadBitmapFile("texture.bmp", &bitmapInfoHeader);

It should just load them from the same directory as the executable.

[edited by - eriel on May 21, 2003 7:51:03 PM]

Yohumbus

May 21, 2003 at 6:57 PM

Why not try using the textures as resources? That way you shouldn''t have path problems and the screen saver is a convenient single file

eriel

May 21, 2003 at 8:45 PM

Thanks for the idea Yohumbus!

It works great now!

One more little question:
Does windows call the screensaver each frame to update?
I was just wondering because the screensaver version is slower than the original executable version.

Thanks for the help!

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