Hiding Load IFF with Get Block

[DrkStarr]

Hello, I started playing with AMOS again, but I'm running into a graphic glitch.

I'm trying to grab some blocks with Get Block.
I load the iff with Load Iff, and I'm even putting it on Screen 2, when I'm looking at Screen 0 or 1.

But it still flashes very quickly on the screen under emulation.

Is there a proper way to load the image to an unseen page and get the blocks from there?

- Just wondering

[Samurai_Crow]

Generally, you copy the blocks to a bank and save and load it as a bank file. An object bank can hold as many as 4096 images.

[DrkStarr]

Thanks for the reply.

Getting blocks and sticking them in a memory bank so I could load them later wasn't the idea. I looked into it, but got stuck at: putting block into memory bank.

I dug around some more and was able to get this code to work.

Load Iff "WallSet01",1
Rem Hides The IFF Loaded
Screen Hide 1 : Screen To Back 1
Get Block 1,0,0,22,104,1

Rem Shows The Current Screen
Screen 0 : Screen To Front 0

The screen hide, and screen to back are doing to trick. I don't totally understand it. I had to show screen 0 at the end also.

- Thanks again

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[Arne]

It's possible to use the...uh, whatsitcalled, direct mode console thingy and do a little of the work from there, such as saving banks and listing banks, or clearing, or even test drawing specific blocks. For my AMOS pro programs I sometimes make a standalone asset program which loads the iff and grabs and processes the images, finaly producing the bank which can then be loaded elsewhere. This unclutters the main program (from all the .iff loading and coordinate grab stuff). Since programs are saved with their banks (sounds, graphics) and sometimes you don't want that, direct mode can be used to clear the banks and reduce saving time to floppy. I load banks manually since it allows me to do a cool loading bar/screen. Otherwise the whole program+gfx+sound will probably have to load before one can show anything on screen.

Direct mode is pretty powerful since you can continue to manipulate graphics and inspect variables from there.