How hard would this be?

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

If I wanted to make an .exe that displayed a .jpg, .gif, or .bmp with every mouse click, where would I start?

Anyone ever see a tutorial like this?

Basically, it would be for a child to play with. Optimally it would allow for sounds with every click. But for a beginner, it would probably be best to keep it to just click the mouse to change the graphic displayed.

Oh, and esc key would exit the program.

[funkydude9]

Well Allegro is a graphics library that you can use to do something like you explained. Once you figured out how to install it, there are many tutorials on it you can find on the web. Good luck!

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

ACK!!!

Setting up allegro with devc++ looks tricky,

I'm still stuck in chapter 3 of most of my books.

Perhaps this should be a back shelf project.

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Isnt there something along the lines of:

if mouse clicks
{
    cout << *.bmp;
}

if esc 
{
quit
}

[XSquared]

There's no standard way to do graphics in C/C++. You have to use a 3rd-party library such as Allegro.

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

What about GLUT?

Can I use that?

Perhaps I could apply my bmp or jpg as a texture to a single planar box shape which responds to a click of the mouse to cycle through the stored images.

Would that work?

[confuted]

It could be done like you described with OpenGL or DirectX. If you do it with DirectX, you can use DirectX both to display the picture, and to detect the mouse clicks. I think in OpenGL you'd have to handle the windows message for the mouse click (I'm not sure).

There is also Allegro.

[darksaidin]

Originally posted by confuted
It could be done like you described with OpenGL or DirectX. If you do it with DirectX, you can use DirectX both to display the picture, and to detect the mouse clicks. I think in OpenGL you'd have to handle the windows message for the mouse click (I'm not sure).

The opengl utility library glut handles all kinds of stuff including mouseclicks =)

#include <gl/glut.h> 
#include <gl/gl.h>

void renderScene(void) {
	glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
	glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);
		glVertex3f(-0.5,-0.5,0.0);
		glVertex3f(0.5,0.0,0.0);
		glVertex3f(0.0,0.5,0.0);
	glEnd();
	glFlush();
}

void main(int argc, char **argv) {
	glutInit(&argc, argv);
	glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_DEPTH | GLUT_SINGLE | GLUT_RGBA);
	glutInitWindowPosition(100,100);
	glutInitWindowSize(320,320);
	glutCreateWindow("3D Tech- GLUT Tutorial");
	glutDisplayFunc(renderScene);
	glutMainLoop();
}

lol, they use void main =) anyway, what I wanted to say is, you can use glutMouseFunc(processMouse);
where processMouse is void processMouse(int button, int state, int x, int y).

glut has function pointers for all kinds of stuff, like keyboard events, mouse events, window resize, move... bla..

glu32 and glut are parts of a standard opengl installation.

You can find a good glut tutorial here

[Perspective]

>> glu32 and glut are parts of a standard opengl installation.

erm, GLUT is not a standard OpenGL library. It is however a very handy and commonly used one. OpenGL can be used without GLUT.

[darksaidin]

Originally posted by Perspective
>> glu32 and glut are parts of a standard opengl installation.

erm, GLUT is not a standard OpenGL library. It is however a very handy and commonly used one. OpenGL can be used without GLUT.

I guess I was trying to say that glut isn't an additional download or something. I didn't want to say that you need to use glut if you want to use opengl. Did I? I hope I didn't because I don't use glut at all =)

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

UGH!!

GLUT doesnt work with DevC++!

I cant get allegro and mingw32 to compile correctly.

And, The reading is making my head feel woozy...LOL!

Time to go with another compiler...

[ichijoji]

I cant get allegro and mingw32 to compile correctly.

If the problem is installing allegro with dev-cpp you might wanna hit this.

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Yup, followed that exact same page...

gcc -v only worked in C:\Dev-Cpp\bin

and C:\Dev-Cpp>make

returned a bad command error....

It was ugly...

Hours of trying later I came here in search of some opinions on user friendly compilers.

[funkydude9]

user friendly compilers.

MSVC

[novacain]

Can easily be done with some basic GDI knowledge in WIN32 API or MFC.

In MFC you can load the bmp off the HD each time you get a WM_LBUTTONDOWN msg and set a picture frame control (a form of static control) to the HBITMAP. MFC will handle the rest, even if the images are different sizes.

In WIN32 you will have to load the bmp, create a temp HDC, select the bmp into this temp hdc and draw this to the screen HDC, then select back the original bmp and delete the temp HDC.
Only problem comes if the images are not the same size.