Pic.NewPart of Pic module

Syntax   Pic.New (x1, y1, x2, y2 : int) : int

Description   Pic.New is used to obtain a picture of a portion of the screen. The Pic.New procedure allocates the memory for the picture, which can be very large for pictures of large areas. The memory is freed up when the program calls Pic.Free with the picture ID. The picture can be used with the Pic.Draw and Pic.Save.

The picture is of the screen area defined by the rectangle (x1, y1) - (x2, y2).

Details   If the Pic.New call fails, then it returns 0. Also Error.Last will return a non-zero value indicating the reason for the failure. Error.LastMsg will return a string which contains the textual version of the error.

Example   The program draws a graphic on the screen and then draws it 50 times.

        var picID: int
        var x, y : int
        Draw.FillBox (50, 50, 150, 150, red)
        Draw.FillStar (50, 50, 150, 150, green)
        Draw.FillOval (100, 100, 30, 30, blue)
        
        picID := Pic.New (50, 50, 150, 150)
        for i : 1 .. 50
            x := Rand.Int (0, maxx)     % Random x
            y := Rand.Int (0, maxy)     % Random y
            Pic.Draw (picID, x, y, picCopy)
        end for
        Pic.Free (picID)
Execute  

Status   Exported qualified.

This means that you can only call the function by calling Pic.New, not by calling New.