It's funny how sometimes you over-complecate things

[Cuallito]

I'm making a program that loads a heightmap and then displays it in 3D. So I start writing methods to load a .dds file, turn it into a DX8 surface, copy the bits to an 1D array, copy the 1D array's bits to a 2D array so I can access the bits easier. Right when I get all this mess actually working I relise I could have just loaded the original .bmp file into a PictureBox class an used the point command.

[Zaei]

A Memory DC would have been more efficient. I had problems before, where Point would only give me -1, when the PictureBox was hidden. You dont get this problem using a Memory DC, and GetPixel().

Z.

[kedaman]

Remove the DC layer and use the bimap directly, there's huge performance difference.

[Zaei]

Then you have to muck around with bitmap Headers, and all of that. Better even, you could preprocess the Bitmap, and write out a .raw file containing a single byte for each height value.

Z.

[kedaman]

Originally posted by Zaei
Then you have to muck around with bitmap Headers, and all of that. Better even, you could preprocess the Bitmap, and write out a .raw file containing a single byte for each height value.

Z.

or learn C++

[Zaei]

Here's a quote I think you'll like kedaman =).

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." - Edsger Dijkstra.

Z.

[kedaman]

Originally posted by Zaei
Here's a quote I think you'll like kedaman =).

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." - Edsger Dijkstra.

Z.

I'm a living miracle to survive that

[Zaei]

As am I =).

Z.

[Sastraxi]

I have learned C++ and I understand it, while before I was taught BASIC. Ta!

[Osiris]

i think C++ & Visual Basic are almost the same thing except for their formats,
but since i'm a newbie in C++ i like VB better cause
in C++ i can only program in that Black window that displays only texts...

[Zaei]

C++ and VB are quite different. When you get better, and learn more of the nuances, you being to understand that =).

Z.