This text explains the Prographx Toolbox, a successful software product widely used in video game development. The Toolbox provides graphics animation by using icons with high speed pixel panning. The icon editor provides image manipulation; animation, image flipping and shifting, color replacement, and dithering. Icons alone do not provide a complete graphics development environment, so the Toolbox includes core graphics routines such as lines, boxes, and circles and uses the ROM fonts available in the EGA/VGA adapter ROM BIOS. The text explains how to program an EGA/VGA adapter using assembly language methods, allowing the Toolbox to work with two programming languages -- C and Pascal. Video modes and basic graphics routines are detailed with examples of core functions from the Toolbox. Jungck explains how to manipulate the hardware directly and match algorithms to hardware processes, using the most efficient computation techniques, as well as how you can use modular design and put display control information in data structures for easy changes and expansions. Using the techniques of Jungck's ProGraphx Toolbox, you can manage screen controls with matrices, linked lists, and tables rather than needing specifically coded functions. The coding of the icon editor is explained, including sophisticated methods such as capturing screen images and converting them into icon formats. Basic routines for displaying PCX files, (the common graphics file format), provide another means for grabbing images to convert to icons, and easy methods for managing background graphics and title page displays. Mouse controls and file management routines provide user interface and real world interaction for programs contructed using the Toolbox. The author also shows how to structure code to make it flexible and reusable with examples from event driven game designs.   Audience : For graphics programmers familiar with either the C or Pascal language, this book provides ready to use tools and shows how to customize the tools. Examples are given from video game design, and the principles can be used for any graphic development requiring high speed animation without demanding large hardware platforms.   Disk Contents: The companion disk contains over 170 program files from the book, including the complete ProGraphx Toolbox and a copy of Secret Agent.   System Requirements: Any PC with a hard drive and EGA or VGA display.

Graphics Programming and Animation

Computers & Technology

Jungck, Peder

Programming

CMP Books

This text explains the Prographx Toolbox, a successful software product widely used in video game development. The Toolbox provides graphics animation by using icons with high speed pixel panning. The icon editor provides image manipulation; animation, image flipping and shifting, color replacement, and dithering. Icons alone do not provide a complete graphics development environment, so the Toolbox includes core graphics routines such as lines, boxes, and circles and uses the ROM fonts available in the EGA/VGA adapter ROM BIOS. The text explains how to program an EGA/VGA adapter using assembly language methods, allowing the Toolbox to work with two programming languages -- C and Pascal. Video modes and basic graphics routines are detailed with examples of core functions from the Toolbox. Jungck explains how to manipulate the hardware directly and match algorithms to hardware processes, using the most efficient computation techniques, as well as how you can use modular design and put display control information in data structures for easy changes and expansions. Using the techniques of Jungck's ProGraphx Toolbox, you can manage screen controls with matrices, linked lists, and tables rather than needing specifically coded functions. The coding of the icon editor is explained, including sophisticated methods such as capturing screen images and converting them into icon formats. Basic routines for displaying PCX files, (the common graphics file format), provide another means for grabbing images to convert to icons, and easy methods for managing background graphics and title page displays. Mouse controls and file management routines provide user interface and real world interaction for programs contructed using the Toolbox. The author also shows how to structure code to make it flexible and reusable with examples from event driven game designs. 
Audience : For graphics programmers familiar with either the C or Pascal language, this book provides ready to use tools and shows how to customize the tools. Examples are given from video game design, and the principles can be used for any graphic development requiring high speed animation without demanding large hardware platforms. 
Disk Contents: The companion disk contains over 170 program files from the book, including the complete ProGraphx Toolbox and a copy of Secret Agent. 
System Requirements: Any PC with a hard drive and EGA or VGA display.

Graphics Programming & Animation

This book introduces the tools you'll need to program with the packetC language. packetC speeds the development of applications that live within computer networks, the kind of programs that provide network functionality for connecting "clients" and "servers" and "clouds". The simplest examples provide packet switching and routing while more complex examples implement cyber security, broadband policies or cloud-based network infrastructure. Network applications, such as those processing digital voice and video, must be highly scalable, secure and maintainable. Such application requirements translate to requirements for a network programming language that leverages massively-parallel systems and ensures a high level of security, while representing networking protocols and transactions in the simplest way possible. packetC meets these requirements with an intuitive approach to coarse-grained parallelism, with strong-typing and controlled memory access for security and with new data types and operators that express the classic operations of the network-oriented world in familiar programming terms. No other language has addressed the full breadth of requirements for tractable parallelism, secure processing and usable constructs. The packetC language is growing in adoption and has been used to develop solutions operating in some of the world's largest networks. This important new language, packetC, has now been successfully documented in this book, in which the language's authors provide the materials and tools you'll need in a readable and accessible form. What you'll learnThis book is the primary document specifying the language from a developer's point of view and act as the formal language user's guide. It covers: How to program applications in packetC. The parallel programming model of packetC Deviations from C99 and the unique aspects of packetC How to leverage existing C code and the applicability of the C stand

packetC Programming

Networking & Cloud Computing

Apress

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