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*edited title name as I accidently put the wrong extension up ( i previously tried that extension, sorry)

So I have been reading every post on the I7 forums that has the word image in it to try and get a handle on this, but I am just not getting something. Here is the code pertaining to images:


No picture displays at all. I can get a picture to display by putting in:

But it will not change the image.
So I tried changing:


to:

(since it seemed to at least understand and carry out the background image...)
That gives me a P31 error and still doesn't change the image.

If anyone could please help me out with this, I would be eternally grateful!

I know I am doing something wrong but I don't know what.

It doesn't display then on the IDE or on the build? Or both?

I've found sometimes my IDE won't show me the pictures, but if I release the story, the pictures are there.

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Well I just tested out your theory, but it doesn't work either way.

Drat, I used Graphical Window Sprites with my last project and got that working fine (in the build also)... I thought handling one image at a time would be a much easier task, but I guess not.

Please, if anyone could help me out, I just don't get what I am doing wrong.

There are a couple of problems here:

1) You don't have any code to actually display the current image--all your "depict" phrase does is change the current image variable to a new figure name.
2) The reason you get the P31 error is that Glimmr Canvas-Based Drawing is designed to use multiple windows, so when you assign a background image to a canvas, you need to do specify which one. In other words, when you write "The background image is Figure of greetingwave," Inform interprets that as "The background image [of nothing] is...", and you get a runtime error. To get this to work, you need to say The background image of the graphics-canvas is Figure of greetingwave. You'll also need to redraw the window using "follow the window-drawing rules for the graphics-window" at an appropriate point in your code.

However, if all you want to do is show a single image, Glimmr Canvas-Based Drawing is really overkill (it's a souped-up version of Graphical Window Sprites). You might want to use Simple Graphical Window instead, which has simple built-in drawing rules. I believe that Jon Ingold has made that extension compatible with Flexible Windows, despite the differences in approach between the two extensions. Of course, if you're going to do other things in other graphics windows, the Glimmr extension might be more appropriate.

--Erik

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Well, I want to use more than one image, just one at a time though. I just want to be able to change the image for certain events.

Thank you so much, Erik! I had tried both of those phrases, just not in combination with eachother.
The new working code is:

THANK YOU AGAIN!!

That's what I meant... Anyway, glad you got it working!

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