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From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman)
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Subject: Re: Buggery Title Screen!!
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 03:58:11 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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The cast is after the addition takes place (because of the nesting) --
it's the function header that changed.

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:35:53 +0100, Majik <majik@127.0.0.1> wrote:

>Max wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks guys, it turns out it was my call to GsGetTimInfo... strange... it
>> was (address+4) and should have been (address+1) to work (as it is now) but
>> before it worked with +4... Yaroze memory really is very strange... can
>> anyone offer an explanation?
>Possibly, looking at the code you posted;
>
>> > void InitSprite(u_long *addr, GsSPRITE *sprite, short xPos, short yPos)
>> > {
>> >  RECT rect; // this is a rectangle in which the sprite will be stored
>> >
>> >  GsIMAGE imageInfo; // this holds the actual sprite data
>> >
>> >  GsGetTimInfo((u_long *)(addr+4),&imageInfo); // read the TIM and ...
>
>you've got a (u_long *) cast in there, was <addr> previously a char or
>u_char type?
>if it was then that would explain what your seeing.
>
>> Now i have the images on screen but they are flickering like mad - must be
>> my OT setup... any suggestions?
>at a guess your drawing a buffer empty, perhaps your code is taking two
>half frames to run?
>
>M.