(F12) screendumps in .png format https:// forum support for .bmp ?

[moriarty]

it would be really nice if the screendumps that you can so conveniently create in openxcom using the F12 key could actually be posted here without having to convert them... just saying.

[radius75]

no need convert.
only rename extension

screen000x.bmp -> screen000x.jpg
screen000x.bmp -> screen000x.png


attach. test:  .bmp > .jpg / .bmp > .png
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EDIT
btw. rename in game .bmp > .jpg or .png work 100% on winxp32
Screen.cpp

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ss << Options::getUserFolder() << "screen" << std::setfill('0') << std::setw(3) << i << ".bmp";

[moriarty]

Seriously? Come on. Okay, it kind of makes sense - the forum simply checks for supported extension, the browser displays anyway... but that's a really, really cheap workaround, wouldn't you agree? 

Considering the un-compressedness of .bmp it is of course easy to use as a screen dump. But I'd still prefer one of my two options from the thread title 

[radius75]

really cheap workaround, wouldn't you agree? 

yes

You want to add .bmp to the option of the enclosures of the forum?
Or alter .bmp on .png in the code of the game?

[moriarty]

Either would be nice for error reporting... but saving directly to .png would be more elegant in the long run.

[radius75]

the only change in the game ".bmp" on ".png" he does not influence the size of the saved screenshot file...

[michal]

I've allowed attaching .bmp files, so you don't need to rename files

On the long run it would be better of course to save screendumps in png.

[moriarty]

Thank you michal!

[radius75]

[Volutar]

Are you kidding? 346kb BMP instead of 4kb png - is an alternative?
Haven't heard of something more lame than that...

You may rename it even into .TXT or even .WAV - it will stay .BMP file...

[radius75]

You are right. What "alternative"?
I also think that you did not understand the whole conversation.

Either would be nice for error reporting... but saving directly to .png would be more elegant in the long run.

the only change in the game ".bmp" on ".png" he does not influence the size of the saved screenshot file...

The problem related to placing .bmp screenshots on the forum. He was solved by Michal [forum options].

[SupSuper]

I'm definitely removing BMP support from the forum as soon as OpenXcom doesn't use it anymore, it's horrifying! (some forums even automatically convert them)

Anyways I have had the code for outputting screenshots in PNG for a while, it's just a matter of figuring out how to tie up all the required libraries to OpenXcom. I mean have you looked at the PNG website? It's like something out of the 80s!

[radius75]

 

[Daiky]

And once the required libraries are linked into openxcom (I thought it was only zlib and libpng?) then it's only a small step to load sprites from PNG 

[michal]

Small step for developer, a giant leap for modders