Re: Simple alpha fade

2006-09-12 Thread Karl Dane

On 12 Sep 2006 11:43:25 +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Karl Dane karl 'at' rince.net writes:

 Hi all,

 I'm trying to write a simple alpha cross-fade app: basically a slideshow
 that fades one image in and the other out. However, can not get alpha
fades
 to work.

 I'm very new to SDL, so please don't laugh at my code! But I'd be very
 grateful if anyone could point out where I'm going wrong. The code
snippet
 below results in the image being displayed without any change.

 Many thanks,

 Karl Dane


 #!/usr/bin/perl

 use warnings;
 use SDL::App;

 our $app = SDL::App-new(
 -width = 640,
 -height = 480,
 -depth = 24,
 -fullscreen = 0,
 );

 for ($i=260; $i =0; $i-=1) {
 print $i\n;

 my $img1 = SDL::Surface-new( -name = ./img1.png );

 $img1-display_format();

 $img1-set_alpha(SDL_SRCALPHA, $i);

/usr/include/SDL/SDL_video.h says for this method:

* The 'alpha' parameter is ignored for surfaces that have an alpha
channel.

One solution might be to remove the alpha by converting the
surface or creating a new surface with proper properties then
blitting the original surface to it.

 $img1-blit( SDL::Rect-new(
 -width = 640, -height = 480), $app, undef);

 $app-sync;
 }

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Hi Guillaume -

Thanks for your prompt reply. You mention converting the surface, I assume
to remove the alpha channel. Any ideas how I'd go about doing this? Is there
an appropriate method?


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Re: Simple alpha fade

2006-09-12 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Karl Dane karl 'at' rince.net writes:

 Thanks for your prompt reply. You mention converting the surface, I assume
 to remove the alpha channel. Any ideas how I'd go about doing this? Is there
 an appropriate method?

Based on a newbie look on Surface.pm documentation, I'd say #rgb
is worth a try.

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