Thread: Some OpenGL Questions:

Sorry for bein' an OpenGL n00b, but I have a few questions I hope you guys can answer:

1.) Why is it that when you supply a file path\name, you hafta convert the "\"s into "/"s? Does it have something to do w/ some of the special commands you can use with \? i.e: "\n"

2.) My program doesn't work outside of my computer because it can't find the .bmp file.(And yes, I did supply the full path to the file) It's a simple program where I use a .bmp file to texture a cube. Would I hafta .zip up the game, and include the .bmp files I'm going to use for it to work outside of my computer?

3.) What's DWORD alignment?

4.)Using the same method you use to use bitmap textures, would I be able to make an animated GIF texture?

5.) What's HWND stand for?

6.)What's a window handle?

Originally posted by Krak
1.) Why is it that when you supply a file path\name, you hafta convert the "\"s into "/"s? Does it have something to do w/ some of the special commands you can use with \? i.e: "\n"

This has nothing to do with OpeGL. It's because of the C/C++ escape characters use the backslash. Also, a double-backslash works (ie: "c:\\myfolder\\myfile.txt")

2.) My program doesn't work outside of my computer because it can't find the .bmp file.(And yes, I did supply the full path to the file) It's a simple program where I use a .bmp file to texture a cube. Would I hafta .zip up the game, and include the .bmp files I'm going to use for it to work outside of my computer?

Yes, regardless of the path being correct if the bitmap isn't on the comp then it doesn't matter.

5.) What's HWND stand for?

handle for a window

6.)What's a window handle? [/B]

An HWND. A pointer to a window structure.

You know some of these questions could have very easily been answered with a simple search either here or google.

crash course in word alignment in 3 sentences or less....

example: suppose you store things in groups of 4, what happens when you want to store something that is only 1 big (ex. think of a char)? you simply store the 1 then leave 3 empty spaces to sustain alignment. with raw image data, no such alignment is done for you thus bitmap dimensions (as i assume you are inquiring about) must be exact powers of 2 when texturing.

Originally posted by Perspective
crash course in word alignment in 3 sentences or less....

example: suppose you store things in groups of 4, what happens when you want to store something that is only 1 big (ex. think of a char)? you simply store the 1 then leave 3 empty spaces to sustain alignment. with raw image data, no such alignment is done for you thus bitmap dimensions (as i assume you are inquiring about) must be exact powers of 2 when texturing.

Okay, I sorta see what you're saying, and I sorta dont. Correct me if I'm wrong, but what your saying is:

Code:

char * string[10]; //I'm not sure if that's the correct way to do it or not. It's been a while

and then having the string end up being only 3 characters long is acceptable, but using a bitmap that's too small isn't, right?

I'm still a little confused by this. Maybe someone could give me a complete retard's guide to what DWORD means, and why bitmap dimensions have to be in powers of 2? Sorry, I'm totally new to this.

the concepts and consequences of aligned and disaligned memory are pretty complicated and in depth topics. it is not really possible to inform you of all that goes on in just a few sentances. start here if you want to learn more.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie...t+memory&meta=

The number of bits per pixel is always 4(each byte 2 pixel), 8(each byte is one pixel) or 24(each pixel needs 3 bytes).
for example the lenght of each line(row) of the bitmap(DIB)
is always a multiple of 4.

bmRow = 4 * ((bitmapwidth * bitcount + 31) / 32;

You add zeros at right side of the row to make it even.