libgamegraphics provides a standard interface to access different game data "graphicss" regardless of their file format. Just like a .zip file, many games squash all their data files together into one big file, and this library provides access to those single big files. Files can be listed and extracted, as well as added, removed, renamed and rearranged.

Structure

The main interface to the library is the getManager() function, which returns an instance of the Manager class. The Manager is used to query supported graphics formats, and for each supported file format it returns an instance of the GraphicsType class.

The GraphicsType class can be used to examine files and check what file format they are in, and if they are in the correct format, to open them. Successfully opening an graphics file produces an instance of the Graphics class. The GraphicsType class can also be used to create new graphicss from scratch, which will again return an Graphics instance.

The Graphics class is used to directly manipulate the graphics file, such as by adding and removing files.

Examples

The libgamegraphics distribution comes with example code in the form of the gamearch utility, which provides a simple command-line interface to the full functionality of the library.

For a small "hello world" example, try this:

When run, this program produces output similar to the following:

Found 456 files.
LOGO.ANM
CINEOV2.ANM
CINEOV3.ANM
RADLOGO.ANM
DUKETEAM.ANM
VOL41A.ANM
VOL42A.ANM
VOL43A.ANM
VOL4E1.ANM
...
Done.

More information

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