Printing BitMaps to screen

[seekwall]

Is there anyway of showing a bitmap on screen in Fox 2.6 ?

 

[rgbean]

Long ago there were a couple packages that allowed FP DOS to display BMP files in DOS by changing the current character screen to a "picture" then overlaying the requested BMP into the appropriate position, then switching the Video to a "graphics" mode to display it. I don't believe these are available anymore. More importantly, they wouldn't work now, assuming you are running under some version of windows.
If you just need to temporarily display a picture, you could just run a program like MSPAINT to show it. e.g.
RUN c:\winnt\system32\mspaint.exe c:\Winnt\atomic.bmp

Rick

 

[seekwall]

It's ok thanks. I should have read the helpfile more closely. This will do the trick:

@1,1 say 'c:\temp\paul.bmp' BITMAP

 

[rgbean]

Paul,
Aha - FPW, that makes all the difference in the world!

Unfortunately because FP 2.5/2.6 came in multiple versions (DOS/Windows/Macintosh/Unix), when it's not qualified, many of us "old timers" will assume FP is FoxPro DOS. (FP 1.x and 2.0 was strictly DOS.)

Rick