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darthmite Senior Member  Joined: 20/11/2011 Location: FrancePosts: 240 |
Hi 
Long time without posting something made my fingers become nervous 
Nick the SpriteMite 'beta tester' have give me some idea and tell me where he see bugs and what was to do to made the soft better. Now the soft can : Get actual Sprite and : -copy to next -copy to previous -take Sprite number1 to number2 and copy them to number3 (this work in reverse mode too). -Move Up -Move Down -Move Left -Move Right -Flip Horizontal -Flip Vertical -Mirror from Up to Down -Mirror from Down to Up -Mirror from Left to Right -Mirror from Right to Left -Rotate 90 deg to Left -Rotate 90 deg to Right That was for the Sprites Edition. You can show the Animation from them too. Just enter the 1st Sprite from the Animation Set in 'Animate from' and the last Sprite from the Animation set in 'Animate to" and press the "Play" Button. Slide the Animation Speed for made it faster or slower. Press the Edit Fonts button and here you can edit new character for made your own fonts set. Best is to try yourself for your Colour Maximite projects. Here it is : 2012-09-02_145611_SpriteMite.zip They are two executables in this archive. SpriteMite_x32.exe is for win xp,vista x86 and seven x86 SprMite.exe is for vista/seven x64. Anyway , thanx to Nick who put allot time in testing this soft and helping me to made it better
Cheers. Darth. Theory is when we know everything but nothing work ... Practice is when everything work but no one know why ;) |
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psergiu Regular Member  Joined: 09/02/2013 Location: United StatesPosts: 83 |
I tried SpriteMite on Crossover (Wine for OS X). It works, but the colours Green & Cyan are reversed - does this happens to anyone running it on a "real" Windows ? Also - SpriteMite is not able to ignore any existing comments in a sprite file. Thanks. |
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| darthmite Senior Member Joined: 20/11/2011 Location: FrancePosts: 240 |
Hi , Sprite file format was set to be directly usable with mmbasic , it's fixed and we can't add comment everywhere ;). I just re start this program on my actual win7 , no colors problem , tested on a XP in virtualbox , everything is ok
I never have use Wine or Mac , then if you can , give a try in virtualbox with win XP. Or , if you use Delphi you can modify the source i attach here for see if you can get the right colors on your Mac. 2014-05-31_091124_SprMite.zip Cheers. Theory is when we know everything but nothing work ... Practice is when everything work but no one know why ;) |
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vasi Guru  Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Darthmite, why you don't try to move to Lazarus+FreePascal? Your projects will become crossplatform. Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| psergiu Regular Member Joined: 09/02/2013 Location: United StatesPosts: 83 |
Actually, comments are allowed. Quot tha latest MMBasic Manual, page 70: If you decide to update the editor, you can add a text field for a comment line to be inserted before each sprite - by default containing the sprite number - would be VERY useful if you need to view/edit the sprite file i a text editor. I tried-it in VirtualBox running Win7 and i the colours are still reversed. 
The correct colour order is: (RGB) Black (000) Blue (001) GREEN (010) CYAN (011) Red (100) Violet (101) Yellow (110) White (111) Thanks... |
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| darthmite Senior Member Joined: 20/11/2011 Location: FrancePosts: 240 |
@vasi , i switched to CodeTyphon(Lazarus) but the Sprite editor for my stm32 graphics engine use 16bits / pixels. I don't use the Maximite actually because i need the speed of C on my project ;). If you want modify the Save routine for mmbasic , the source is here : New Sprite editor @psergiu , strange that the colors are reverted for you. I just reopen the lemmings sprites and other i have use for my MM games demo and it appear ok here ... I don't use RGB coding , it's just 8 color and was easy to just use number 0 to 7 with the mmbasic specification(at the time i made the soft). If the color number have change , then just change the corresponding number in the Sprite Save routine and as-well in the Load one. For the comment it is easy to change too , just ignore line with the (') char at start :) 
Cheers. Theory is when we know everything but nothing work ... Practice is when everything work but no one know why ;) |
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| darthmite Senior Member Joined: 20/11/2011 Location: FrancePosts: 240 |
I was curious to see how fast we can convert Delphi to Lazarus ... Was so fast that the SprMite is now for Lazarus too :) Here is the source : 2014-05-31_211126_SprMite_v2.2.zip I cant put the exe in the zip , it will be more than the 500k allowed. Now just compile with the Mac Lazarus
Cheers. Theory is when we know everything but nothing work ... Practice is when everything work but no one know why ;) |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Thanks Darthmite, I wanted to try it myself but is better when the author of the project is doing it. Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| psergiu Regular Member Joined: 09/02/2013 Location: United StatesPosts: 83 |
Thanks for the source code ! Your screenshot shows the colors reverted too. From the first Colour MMBasic release, Green has been 2 and Cyan 3. You have them the other way around in your source code. Save that Lemming sprite and load-it into a Maximite - you will notice that the hair will be Cyan instead of Green 
I installed the Mac lazarus, loaded the project (fixed the Green/Cyan mishap), Deleted "Windows" and "Character" from "uses" and added "LCLType" else the compiler screamed bloody murder. The application compiles, runs, i can interact with the colours and with the grid but i cannot move the window or click on any control... Anyone played with Lazarus on a non-windows platform ? Last time i used a IDE for programming was with Turbo/Borland Pascal ... i'm lost
Thanks ! |
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| darthmite Senior Member Joined: 20/11/2011 Location: FrancePosts: 240 |
Ok , I reverted the Lime and Aqua colors. After adding only ONE line of code we can now add comment everywhere after the header block. Take the new source : 2014-06-01_100526_SprMite_v2.3.zip Enjoy. PS: With the new colors my Lemmings are now Ugly !! Theory is when we know everything but nothing work ... Practice is when everything work but no one know why ;) |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
The 2.3 version (the only I tested) works! Painted a sprite, saved, cleared the working area, loaded again. Works! 
What I did: - Ignored the Lazarus project and put Lazarus to import the Delphi project again; - Complained about "Character" unit and ignored it; - Couldn't pass compilation as there is no "Character" unit so I deleted it from "uses"; - Compiled successfully and executed the application without error. ___________ Used Lazarus for Linux, didn't used CodeTyphon. Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
@darthmite, I can't find "About" button... can you please rectify your code? Your name should be there, no matter under what license you release the code. Or at least, on the window title bar: "SpriteMite for Colour Maximite 2.3 by YourNameHere" Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| darthmite Senior Member Joined: 20/11/2011 Location: FrancePosts: 240 |
He he , i never add 'about' button or menu because i don't care what other are doing with my sources
It's here for help MMBasic programmer and i hope it will. By the way , if Geoff is around there he can put this new version on his library that every can have the soft directly (but compile first !!). Will the forum not limit the zip upload to 500k i will put it here myself. About this , can the moderator up this limit a little (like 2 or 3Mb) ?? Cheers. Theory is when we know everything but nothing work ... Practice is when everything work but no one know why ;) |
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| psergiu Regular Member Joined: 09/02/2013 Location: United StatesPosts: 83 |
I'm not succeeding in compiling a working version on OS X. The window is frozen, none of the buttons work, all the hints from the Lazarus wiki are for ancient versions and there is no useful information anywhere. Can anyone please compile a working Windows binary ? In the meantime i'll see how to get back that 1Gb of space that useless Lazarus occupies. |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
I wish I had an OS X to help you... Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| darthmite Senior Member Joined: 20/11/2011 Location: FrancePosts: 240 |
I compiled under win7 x64. I hope the link work
SprMite 2.3 win7 x64 And this one compiled under XP Sp3. SprMite 2.3 x32 Theory is when we know everything but nothing work ... Practice is when everything work but no one know why ;) |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Darthmite, I saw the image from the site... interesting thing you have there. A micro drawing random lines on a color LCD and a lot of switches arranged in a sort of keyboard... Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| darthmite Senior Member Joined: 20/11/2011 Location: FrancePosts: 240 |
Everything is on my site , schematic , source code etc ... Take it , use it , modify it
If it can give another idea to Geoff for the Maximite , then just convert the code to Pic32. Cheers. Theory is when we know everything but nothing work ... Practice is when everything work but no one know why ;) |
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| psergiu Regular Member Joined: 09/02/2013 Location: United StatesPosts: 83 |
Thank you very much, the x32 version works perfectly under Crossover/WINE, the colours are in the correct order and it loads sprite files with comments without any issue. |
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| darthmite Senior Member Joined: 20/11/2011 Location: FrancePosts: 240 |
Just don't forget that if it's ok to load a file with comments. When you re-save the file , all comment will be wipe out
Theory is when we know everything but nothing work ... Practice is when everything work but no one know why ;) |
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