Fall 2023 Banner Contest - Vote here

[bplus]

What a shame the newly-supported QOI can't help us here. (roll eyes)

A WEBP is superior to GIF but is heck to support. But then how to capture each frame of one of these animations? How many frames to capture? Because the file could get quite big, because it will support more than 256 colors. Putting bplus' effort into a GIF/WEBP would make it static; part of the charm is the randomness with the leaves falling and what goes on "inside" that silly pumpkin.

I'd rather forget about the banners that were shown in the past. What is the sense of showing them again, if they used to be displayed for a long while each one? Those banners happened before the qualifications were changed, and those aren't programmable, mostly just static JPEG or PNG, a QB64 program which is just `SCREEN _LOADIMAGE("whatever.png", 32)`.

EDIT: OK the one that is about to be replaced was the result of a QB64 program but it features no animation, so... take your shots.

<Putting bplus' effort into a GIF/WEBP would make it static; part of the charm is the randomness with the leaves falling and what goes on "inside" that silly pumpkin.>

Good I am glad someone sees the animation difference, thanks mnr...


<I'd rather forget about the banners that were shown in the past. What is the sense of showing them again, if they used to be displayed for a long while each one? Those banners happened before the qualifications were changed, and those aren't programmable, mostly just static JPEG or PNG, a QB64 program which is just `SCREEN _LOADIMAGE("whatever.png", 32)`.>

For the record, the very first Winter Banner also was a QB64pe snow fall animation from which a still shot was taken using Steve's SaveImage library, same as how I took a still shot last night from Falling Leaves. Walter's Spring was probably a Cut/Paste Photo Shop deal. And Terry's as you said was a great full fledged QB64pe app from which I suppose a screen shot was taken. I don't know if he used a save image or just took a screen shot? I can't take screen shots of my animations because my screen isn't 1400 pixels wide so I have to use SaveImage.

You may want to forget last seasons banner but if we build a Banner Hall of Fame and show the entries everyone who submits an entry can be recognized in the legendary Banner Contest at QB64pe as gyrmmjack was recognizing a future asset of this forum! Just another corner you can visit here if you wish.

BTW I have volunteered to be custodian of Banner Hall of Fame. Put it up there with Christmas Code Board.

Update: Speaking of Christmas Code Board, OMG! new member @rootboy gave me a rep point for Christmas Star! Thankyou rootboy and welcome!

[TerryRitchie]

And Terry's as you said was a great full fledged QB64pe app from which I suppose a screen shot was taken. I don't know if he used a save image or just took a screen shot? I can't take screen shots of my animations because my screen isn't 1400 pixels wide so I have to use SaveImage.

I always use Steve's saveimage for things like this. It's the same way I created the flaming phoenix on the tutorial site. The code outputs individual images and then I use EzGIF ( https://ezgif.com/ ) to paste everything together into a GIF.

Now with SaveImage included in 3.9.0 this process will be simpler without having to include libraries.

[dbox]

Here's a version of the winning @bplus banner that will show a static image.  If you click it, it will play the animation:

[grymmjack]

Thanks @dbox I will put this up.

[grymmjack]

It's up. @bplus @dbox thank you.

[bplus]

It's up. @bplus @dbox thank you.

Awesome guys! It works for me before I even signed in!

No scrollbars I luv this! Just a click and it's animated! Thanks so much!

[grymmjack]

It's up. @bplus @dbox thank you.

Awesome guys! It works for me before I even signed in!

No scrollbars I luv this! Just a click and it's animated! Thanks so much!

[bplus]

I know people are probably not liking the delays when change boards, eh? the price we pay for innovations...

but has anyone noticed same set of stars in each Random update of the scene. I can see the stars still out at noon! No, those aren't same old stars those are tiny little clouds ;-))

QB64 and QBJS definitely work in slightly different palettes of RGB.

[RhoSigma]

I know people are probably not liking the delays when change boards, eh? the price we pay for innovations...

but has anyone noticed same set of stars in each Random update of the scene. I can see the stars still out at noon! No, those aren't same old stars those are tiny little clouds ;-))

QB64 and QBJS definitely work in slightly different palettes of RGB.

I can live with the delays, much more annoying is the behavior that the banner obviously "steals" the page focus and makes my browser (Firefox) always scrolling to the top. Eg. In the board overview I click the "Last post" link, the browser loads the thread going to the display the last post and half a second later (ie. when the QBJS code starts executing) it scrolls back to top.

That really sucks and destroys my entire forum experience as I'm used to it.

[bplus]

RE: Stealing the focus

Oh that's not the browser, we programmed it to do that, such show offs we are! ;-))