Grab or pixmap an image

[DragonEgg]

Hi All
I am creating a Sprite/Tile editor,and i need advice on saving the image i have created.
Here is the editor so far.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/rm4mttdmkxsrqf8/SpriteEditor.exe/file
Just downloaded to test.Throws an error funny how all BRL products do it.

I need to use the image at the right,do i GrabImage or use a pixmap to save the image(pixmap is not my strongpoint)
and GrabImage to read the pixels to load a sprite.

Any help much appreciated.By the way this being made in vanilla BlitzMax

I thank you.

[Derron]

GrabImage is limited by your (or the users) GPU maxtexsize.

Pixmaps are some kind of "pixel data maps" - which means the users RAM limites the dimensions.
For a tile-editor-thing I would go with pixmaps. Just create yourself some helper-functions to ease the pain of manipulating/creating/... pixmaps ("DrawImageToPixmap(img, x,y, pix)" or similar stuff).


bye
Ron

[col]

Throws an error funny how all BRL products do it.

What errors are you referring to? And compared to what other products?

[Holzchopf]

I *think* he refers to "security centers" classifying all Blitz*-applications as potentially dangerous.