Animation using loop and pictures

**mortehau** · 03-05-2010

Hello..

I'm quite new to the C language, but I still want to make an animation out of a certain number of images. I haven't decided the file format yet, but jpeg, raw and gif would work out fine I think.

My question is then, how can I, in a simple way, read in an image from the harddisc and then display it in some sort of window? I dont know how this works, but I guess it is possible to read and show an image without using any additional programs?!

Please help me

Oh, I'm using C of course and Unix

**Alexander jack** · 03-05-2010

C is mainly used for CUI ( character user interface ) , for animation you must need a GUI , so I do not think that you can achieve this using C with out any compromise.

I suggest you to prefer VC++ ,Java ,etc

**sganesh** · 03-05-2010

I know we can read the image file contents. But I don't know we can display or not.

For that I searched and I got his URL this can be useful for you. But If you have graphics.h then only you can use it.

Refer: how to display a image in c - C

I hops it will help you.

**rogster001** · 03-05-2010

when you say 'additional programs' do you mean 'additional libraries', or actual third party software that you run independently if you dont want to use a graphics library and want to write everything yourself you will have to learn about pixel and screen formats and framebuffers to write the image data to memory, if you are not planning to write the whole thing yourself (you have said you are a beginner) then i would say use SDL, which i found very easy to get going with.
i say very easy as i had quite a bit of programming experience before i started using it, it's not hard but if you are a raw beginner you are probably running before walking by wanting to learn animation straight off.

Refer: how to display a image in c - C

unfortunately this is not going to help you, unless you are using a very old compiler, though its what i started with you are probably better with modern tools from the get go

**Alexander jack** · 03-05-2010

Im totally agree with rogster001 , since you are a beginner it is difficult you to design this animation stuffs.
so it is better you to use Simple DirectMadia Layer ( SDL ). SDL is a free and open source multimedia library.and aslo supports cross platform.

**mortehau** · 03-05-2010

You guys helped me alot. I've been searching the internett for quite a while without any results, and then you come along and answeres me right away.

"C is mainly used for CUI ( character user interface ) , for animation you must need a GUI , so I do not think that you can achieve this using C with out any compromise."

I had a hunch of this, but now I know for shore. thanks.

To rogster001 and Alexander jack; I wanted to make an animation from the bottom of, but since it probably is to hard for me then I let it go.. I've been looking on SDL now and it looks good. Since you recommend it I'll give it a try. Thanks again!

By additional program I actually ment program like SDL, GLwiew(If you've heard of that), and not extra libraries.

**Elysia** · 03-05-2010

Originally Posted by mortehau

"C is mainly used for CUI ( character user interface ) , for animation you must need a GUI , so I do not think that you can achieve this using C with out any compromise."

I had a hunch of this, but now I know for shore. thanks.

This is not true. There are many commerical and free programs in C with a GUI (and C++ too for that matter).
That may be a little harder to make a GUI in (C more so than C++), but that doesn't mean they cannot be used for GUI programs, or that they are not used for GUI programs.
Pay no heed to that. If you want to write a GUI in C, you can do it. Though it might be easier if you chose another language.

**UltraKing227** · 03-05-2010

I never use C++ for GUI programming...

althrough, i prefer to program C GUI applications on windows. the concept
of programming Unix GUI is nearly the same, anyway SDL is a good choice.

**Feengur** · 03-05-2010

@mortehau

I would recommend setting it as your future goal instead of your present task.

Start from the ground up with the language. This site has an awesome set of tutorials that will surely help you learn, and if you get stuck you can ALWAYS come to the forums and ask for assistance.

**mramazing** · 03-07-2010

Allegro will work. It is a game programming library analogous to SDL. I found that it was a bit easier to learn when I first started but that could change from person to person. Allegro will let you 'load_bitmap()' which can be use for jpegs and gifs i believe, then blit the image to the screen. using a loop you can get an animation. Hope that helps

link:
Allegro - A game programming library

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