SCI Companion V3 - alpha build notes/bugs/feature requests

[Kawa]

What about scrolling screens like in SQ1. I have never looked at it close enough to see if it was done with two pics side by side or one double wide pic.

I did, and I checked it just now. It's two regular-sized pics side-by-side with a dpOPEN_SCROLL_something transition. King's Quest 7 on the other hand...

[Collector]

Of course KQ7 is an SCI2.1 game.

[Kawa]

Of course KQ7 is an SCI2.1 game.

That was the joke

[MusicallyInspired]

Yeah those are reg screens. SCI01 has them too. I've been trying to recreate it in my project but it hasn't been working for some reason.

[troflip]

Using dpOPEN_SCROLL_RIGHT (or one of the other three) for the room style doesn't work?

Also note that the two screens will need to have the same palette, or it'll look bad.

[troflip]

Interesting. Which games have 320x200 pics? Does the current template interpreter support it?

SQ5 pic 128 is actually 201 pixels high! Not sure why...

[Kawa]

What I'd like to know is how to show 'em at their full height.

[troflip]

Hmm, yeah... it displays them 10 pixel down from the top, doesn't it? Even if you hide the status bar.

[lskovlun]

The kernel call you need is called SetPort. There is a long form and a short form, and for this you need the long form. Something like:

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        SetPort(0 0 200 320 0 0)
and

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                SetPort(0 0 190 320 10 0)
to reset it afterwards (which you absolutely must do). The short form is used to draw things like dialog box borders (the reason being that they are logically outside the extent of the dialog box) and custom menu bars.

Both of these only affect future draw commands. So you'd typically sandwich a super:init() or a drawPic between two SetPort calls.

[troflip]

Sure enough, that works! (Originally, I poked around in the SQ5 code for one of the rooms that use a 320x200 pic, but didn't see any SetPort calls, so I assumed it was something else that was needed).

(attached image of template game with a 320x200 pic from SQ5 (left palette cycling in, obviously)).

[MusicallyInspired]

Cool!

Using dpOPEN_SCROLL_RIGHT (or one of the other three) for the room style doesn't work?

Also note that the two screens will need to have the same palette, or it'll look bad.

No, but if you recall the other thread I made, it was something to do with setting the style property before calling the superclass. I just haven't gone back to it yet.

[troflip]

Turns out SCI 1.0 supports 200 pixel high bitmaps too.

[Kawa]

Got my 320x200 pics ready and rendering... as 320x190 with a white bar on the bottom, because I can't import them right yet

[troflip]

Lol, good, because an update is forthcoming to support 200px high images. 

[Kawa]

Lol, good, because an update is forthcoming to support 200px high images. 

But John came fifth and won a toaster.

Good night!