looking for a simple sprite/tile sheet editor with animation tools

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@TempodiBasic started some tut for this, what happened?

What I would do first is get code for isolating a rectangle block from Sprite sheet to display in editor and have code ready to save the edited image back into the sprite sheet. The rest of it has been worked out by johnno and I at the old forum. Now with QB64pe there are better tools for Loading and Saving Dialogs along with Message and Input Boxes. We were only working with whole images not blocks in a Sprite sheet.

Oh hey the darn thing still works! Just had to fix a Function in SaveImage.BM when functions names could no longer be used in calc's.

One more screenshot:

See Terry's Game Programming tut for animation after the Sprite Sheet is made.

Thanks for sharing this, I'll give it a look. 

Now with QB64pe there are better tools for Loading and Saving Dialogs along with Message and Input Boxes.

I've seen threads here about InForm and simple GUI functions, is there an example specifically about how to do an inputbox, like you can in vbscript? For example:

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dim sInput
sInput = ""
Do
    'InputBox(prompt[, title][, default][, xpos][, ypos][, helpfile, context])
    sInput = InputBox("Type your name?", "MyTitle", "default value")
Loop While (Len(sInput)=0)
msgbox "Hello " & sInput

Thanks again!

Re: InputBox

see https://qb64phoenix.com/qb64wiki/index.php/  crap! wont link because of _,  just lookup _INPUTBOX$ in Wiki

Since QB64pe v3.4 we have built in _InputBox$ and other vital Dialogue boxes like MessageBox see the bottom part of _InputBox$ of Wiki for complete list of built in Dialogues, you don't need to use InForm for these popup modal functions. 

These were not available when johnno and I were working sprite editor so they would cut allot of my code for Sprite Editor. But like I said you will have to work out code for isolating a image block from sprite sheet to work on in editor and the save the modified block back to the sprite sheet. @TerryRitchie 's Tutorial will likely have at least getting an image block from a sprite sheet for editing, I will bet real money! Might be a little tricky getting the edited image saved back into proper place of sprite sheet.

It's as easy as this:

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myinput$ = _InputBox$("Test _InputBox$", "Please type something in or use recommended default.", "Testing 1,2,3")
Print myinput$

BTW one great big advantage of _InputBox$ has over simple Input is you can paste stuff in from clipboard! Another is you don't have to worry about arranging a place on your screen because it works independent of it.