( no it's not an AOL add-on, sheesh!! )
Remember that intro to Star Wars!??
It was a long, long long....
time ago....
in a galaxy far, far far away.....
blah, blah, blah....
well it's just a splash screen type program, I was going to rewrite it in DirectX and do
flipping for smooth scrolling, but I'll let ya do it, lol.
it draws to a BMP in the DC first so u have a BMP that is scrolled and not text actually,
this will allow the Text to be skipped completely and just loading a BMP, JPG, PNG or GIF in
DirectX to allow a good graphics artist to design the intro screen, The sides of the scroll
window can be modified to allow all sorts of scroll shapes instead of the traditional Star
Wars piramid scroller, yup straight up too!
I gotta warn ya to watch the Text Width varable if u are experimenting with the scroller,
it's a constant in the routine.
About the only reason I wrote it was for a demo for a guy that wondered if it could be done.
What more could u ask for!??
( DirectX Docs links are on the HotList, sniker.... )
Copyright June 1999.
Wednesday, March 21, 2001 12:05:12 am