PortraitViewer

[Guiseppe]

Hi all, I just finished my new program: PortraitViewer. It's a tool to manage your custom portraits in BG1 and BG2 so if you'd like to give it a try, here's the link:

http://httpd.chello.nl/~heuzinkveld/...raitviewer.zip (<300kb)

Please let me know what you think of it, as this is my first real Delphi project.

[SixOfSpades]

I have never even heard of programming in Delphi.....but it's a good program, so the system obviously has its merits. It works fine, Guiseppe, but there's one thing I would definitely change: Every time I move or rename a portrait, in my looooong list of portraits, my little slider bar automatically gets kicked right back up to the top, and it's kinda tough to remember where the heck I was. Would correcting this be difficult to implement?
Apart from that, the only possible improvement I could suggest would be to include a simple bitmap editor, whose principal feature would be a tool that allows you to change one color to another. PAINT already does this, but only on a very small scale: You can only change one specific pigment value to another value, and that gets really tedious. What I'm talking about is a program that changes ALL variations of one color to another color, so I can say, "Hey, I don't like his purple cloak. I think I'll make it green." I have a program that does this, but it's huge--something smaller, and built for bitmaps, would be just the thing. I realize that this would take a MASSIVE additional amount of code, but it's the only improvement I could think of. [img]smile.gif[/img] Good work!

[Guiseppe]

Hi SixOfSpades,

Thx for your reply, I'm working on the selection problem so you should see an update soon. I'm already looking in to bitmap processing, but that could take a bit of time, since I have no xp in that area.

I've also set up a very basic homepage for the program, as soon as there's an update, I will also extend the homepage some more. Here's the link: http://httpd.chello.nl/~heuzinkveld/martijn/

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Guiseppe

[dex_man]

Hey Guiseppe

Nifty little program you got there, just wondering wat version of delphi did you program it in and can i have a look at the source (thats why i asked what version u used i only have delphi 5) because ive only just started learning delphi myself after getting a free copy, legally i might add to

[Guiseppe]

Hi dex_man,

I started this project in Delphi 4 but I recently got Delphi 6 so I transferred the project over to Delphi 6. I don't think the basics in 4, 5 or 6 are very different. Just some more options and tools and components.

I don't want to publish the complete sourcecode yet, but if you have questions I may be able to send some examples or help you in any other way.

Thanx for your reply!

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Guiseppe

[Guiseppe]

Version 1.01 is finished!

The selection problem has been fixed and memory usage has decreased a bit.

The new version can be downloaded here: http://httpd.chello.nl/~heuzinkveld/martijn/