C++20 for Lazy Programmers: Quick, Easy, and Fun C++ for Beginners

© Will Briggs 2021

W. BriggsC++20 for Lazy Programmershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6306-8_2

2. Images and Sound

Will Briggs¹  

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Lynchburg, VA, USA

 

Enough of these line drawings. Let’s have something pretty.

We’ll get to play around with a deluxe graphics editing package; I like GIMP. See Appendix A (Unix) or www.gimp.org (Windows) to install.

Images and window characteristics

Let’s start by displaying an image using the code in Example 2-1. Run this and subsequent examples the same way as in the previous chapter: go to the source code and then the relevant subfolder (in this case, ch2). For g++, go into the folder for the example, copy Makefile.unix or Makefile.MinGW to Makefile, and make. For Visual Studio, open ch2.sln, right-click the appropriate ...