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RCMAN
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Posted: 04:07pm 09 Dec 2020

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I'm reading large sprites and getting the error "Not enough heap memory"

I looked up an option for it and didn't find one.

Can I increase it?

Thanks
RC

matherp
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Posted: 04:11pm 09 Dec 2020

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The issue is in the decoding of PNG files which use huge amounts of memory. One workaround is to convert large png to bmp read these into memory and then use sprite read to convert the image into a sprite

The other thing you can do is make sure you load sprites before setting up any array or string variables
Edited 2020-12-10 02:18 by matherp

RCMAN
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Posted: 05:37pm 09 Dec 2020

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matherp said No
The issue is in the decoding of PNG files which use huge amounts of memory. One workaround is to convert large png to bmp read these into memory and then use sprite read to convert the image into a sprite

The other thing you can do is make sure you load sprites before setting up any array or string variables

I converted to BMP and still getting the error.

for i = 1 to 59

' load bmp "00"+str$(i)
if i < 10 then
load bmp "gfx/000"+str$(i)+".bmp"
' blit 0,0,0,256,256,256,1
'print "000"+str$(i)+".bmp"
sprite read i,0,0,256,256,1
else
load bmp "gfx/00"+str$(i)+".bmp"
' blit 0,0,0,256,256,256,1
sprite read i,0,0,256,256,1
'print "00"+str$(i)
sprite show i,100,100,0

gfx.zip

end if

Attached the images

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matherp
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Posted: 05:46pm 09 Dec 2020

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You are simply trying to load too much data

Assume 8-bit colour mode
256x256 = 64k
*2 (original image + screen save) = 128k
*59

= 7552K = 7M

Available memory

5M

RCMAN
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Posted: 05:48pm 09 Dec 2020

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matherp said You are simply trying to load too much data

Assume 8-bit colour mode
256x256 = 64k
*2 (original image �+ screen save) = 128k
*59

= 7552K = 7M

Available memory

5M

Okay thanks. I'll make them smaller :)

Thanks
RC

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