Importing a picture and using it in an Animation?

[revangrey]

now I am trying to place a picture in an animation and make that picture move

I was thinking of a Santa in a sleigh making a run across the screen sort of thing

but before I can do that I need to import a picture,
.jpg preferably not those other random things turing supports...


This is what I got from the picture importing thread, by Dan I believe

code:

var varname :int := Pic.FileNew (" c:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\Administrator\My Pictures\spartan6.jpg") %to specify the exact location of this file        var mypic :int:= Pic.FileNew ("c:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\Administrator\My Pictures\spartan6.jpg")         %to draw the picture in the center of the screen with no mode Pic.Draw (mypic, maxx div 2, maxy div 2, 0)

Any and ALL help is appreciated thanks in advance!

[Tony]

importing and using an image of any supported type works the same way.

[Insectoid]

Put the image into the folder your code is contained in. That way you don't have to type the whole directory.

code:

Pic.FileNew ("sparten6.jpg")

I don't know if Turing does this, but many languages use the backslash ('\') as an escape character, meaning it does things to the string . To get around that, use a double backslash ('\\').

Another thing, if you create the picture when you initialize the variable, you don't need :int. You can just do:

code:

var mypic := Pic.FileNew ("sparten6.jpg")

Either should work.

[revangrey]

ARGH

didnt see you post that sry.