drawing a map with bitblt

[Allanon]

Hi,
If I understand what you wanted to do, just being able to blt what ever tile at a location. Such as a snow tile at (0,0) and a forest tile at (0,1)
I would change the loops into for next loops, and then you don't need all the ifs to check what tiles you have. If you set up your maparray so that
maparray(0,0) = 0 ' being a snow tile for instance
maparray(0,1) = 1 ' forest then
you could just do tileInfo(maparray(x, y)).Left instead of using ifs to check for things

Dim TILE_WIDTH As Integer, TILE_HEIGHT As Integer
Dim Xspot As Integer, Yspot As Integer ' used to blt the tiles at certain locations
TILE_WIDTH = 47 ' I'm guessing
TILE_HEIGHT = 47
Xspot = 0 ' starting spot for 1st tile
For x = 0 To 9
  Yspot = 0
  For y = 0 To 6
    BitBlt frmGame.hDC, Xspot, Yspot, TILE_WIDTH, TILE_HEIGHT, frmGraphics.Picture1.hDC, tileInfo(maparray(x, y)).Left, tileInfo(maparray(x, y)).Top, SRCCOPY
    Yspot = Yspot + TILE_HEIGHT
  Next y
  Xspot = Xspot + TILE_WIDTH
Next x

I hope that helps, I would recomemend learning directdraw, I think its easier than bitblt, and you don't need to load all your pictures before hand

[vshammas]

thanks for the help and time! will try it out now and post if i have more ?s... i will also try to learn more about directdraw and directx in general. just trying out the basics ( as you probably noticed from my extremely cluttered coding!).