Is there any advance in pictconv project?
I was trying to build a PC program to open pc graphics and using pictconv convert it to oric but this become beyond my programming skills in visual basic
Creating a new painting program from the scratch seems to be diffucult for all of us in Oric community. Perhaps one might think it is not useful or handy or effort to build such a program will be wasted.
So, instead of writing a new program, can't we use pictconv for a windows GUI utility?
Using command-line utility is quite diffucult.
Pimp - libpipi utility does so much for that. But it seems weak for use.
http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libpipi/oric
I see some of you here contribute libpipi project in the web-page.
Automated conversion is really nice with pictconv and libpipi but sometimes needs some corrections especially right edge of the colored images.
There are many powerful picture editors available for modern PC's. So creating 240x200 resolution pictures with those editors is easy. Conversion of these pictures to Oric is the diffucult stage. pictconv does that for sure.
So we don't need powerfull - multilayered - multifunctional graphic editor. Only thing we need is a conversion utiliy with graphic interface.
So what I need to do is
- Create a picture by using any graphich utility and save it in 240x200 pixel format (gif, bmp, png etc)
- Our utility opens that picture and convert it to Oric screen
- I will see the converted image on that utility. Only simple edition tools is enough like correcting the edges, deleting wrong bytes
- Then save it as .tap or .hrs file.
So only conversion to oric routine is needed and pictonv serves it .
I believe our target shout be libpipi-The pimp utility might be updated. It succesfully loads .tap images. But no edition icons are active.