SPRITELOAD

SPRITELOAD

SPRITELOAD integer-variable, string-expression

Load a sprite and set the given integer variable to its handle value, where the filename to the sprite is in the string expression.

The following types of files are supported as sprites:

Extension	File type
JPG	JPEG
PNG	Portable network graphics
TGA	TARGA
BMP	Windows DIB Bitmap
PSD	Photoshop Document
GIF	Graphics interchange format
PIC	Pictor Paint (PC Paint)

When you are finished rendering the sprite you should free it with SPRITEFREE. Note that all sprites associated with a program are automatically freed when the program ends.

Each program may have up to 1024 sprites loaded at any one time, with the sprite handles that are allocated only having relavence to the program which loaded them.