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hey everyone
does nybody know a .bmp image loader that is not 20 lines of code long?
i was just wondering as i have bin playing with Qb 4 a while and i'm thinking of making a rpg or other kind of game

Uhh... just use freebasic or PP256. If you REALLY want to, convert your .bmps into bsave/bloads, loading bmps for games is WAY to slow

After you make your images as BMPs or GIFs or whatever, you should just convert them to BSAVEs with a small image loader program. Just load the BMP image, then GET it and BSAVE it. Then you can load it in your game quite easily.

BMP loaders are more complicated than a couple of lines of code, so expect to see about 20 or so lines of code for a BMP loader. You gotta read the header, interpret certain parts of it, load the raster lines one by one, checking for padding bits, etc. But that's nothing...try a JPG loader some day if you think 20 lines are bad.