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Question 19 (2010):

Submission reference: IN1914

I am wanting to use the various raster graphics libraries to do my dining philosophers with, but the problem I am having is that the SDL raster interface (http://occam-pi.org/occamdoc/sdlraster.html) uses channels of type "RASTER" to output the graphics on the screen but all the other raster libraries use channels of "INT[][]".

I have looked through the documentation and cannot find a way to convert the INT[][] to RASTER, unless I first output it as an image file (which is hardly efficient when doing animations).

Is there a process that will convert the INT[][] to RASTER or some other way of displaying the images that uses INT[][]?

Answer 19:

Have you tried compiling code that uses both of these? The RASTER type is defined to be a "MOBILE [][]INT". Although we haven't taught you about MOBILE types yet (which use a movement semantics rather than copying semantics), you should be able to pass RASTERs to procedures that expect [][]INT parameters (although not vice-versa). Within your own code, it'd be more efficient to use things like "CHAN RASTER" rather than "CHAN [][]INT", as the latter will take an appreciable amount of time to copy large graphics windows. We'd recommend just trying to compile your code as-is, and if you run into any specific type errors, ask here again :-).

Keywords: graphics , q7