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[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (Troll123 @ Feb 11 2003, 05:04 PM)

Can anyone paste some sample code or help me with this question: I would like to know how to read the game thumbnail that nexgen + the xbox dashboard uses for the games to incorporate into another program. We would like to have My Apps be able to auto-generate a thumbnail based on the embedded picture in the XBE. Please PM me or reply to this thread.

Well, I have some of the code you need in MXM.

Have a look at the source, if you have it... in the utils.cpp file.

The next version of MXM will support TitleImage.xbx files when screenshots are not available.

[BenJeremy]

QUOTE (DevSpook @ Feb 11 2003, 05:47 PM)

The routines in BenJeremys source are a great starting point. One tip with regards to performance, use one function to read both title & id, it will shave some time of your init-routine. Especially if you have a lot of icons to load. When you get to the next step, alpha-blending the icon against a spheremask, remember to use two sets of texture coordinates for the face(s) you are mapping the texture to. That one stumped me for a while. As for loading the image once you have the game id, use something like this: CStdString sImagefile; sImagefile.Format("e:udata%Stitleimage.xbx", wcID);  // Note: ID already converted to wchar if (FileExists(sImagefile.c_str())) {      if( !FAILED( m_xprResource2.Create( m_pd3dDevice, sImagefile.c_str(), 1, NULL ) ) ) {         m_pIconTexture = m_xprResource2.GetTexture( (DWORD) 0 );    } } FileExists is another nice function courtesy of BenJeremy.

Yeah yeah... steal all my code  




I thought about combining the fetch of the ID and title... but at the time, for whatever reason, I didn't (poor excuse, but I'm designing on the fly, heh heh)

[Troll123]

Nm:) I found the source. Thanks a ton!