inverting icons

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Jan 21 2002, 2:19 pm
is there a way to invert the colors in an icon?

Thanks,
FIREking

p.s. if there are multiple ways, could you show me all of them?
Jan 21 2002, 2:21 pm
The new swap button..
Jan 21 2002, 2:22 pm
In response to Nadrew
im talking about at run time, with code...

FIREking
Jan 21 2002, 2:22 pm
In response to FIREking
I think there's also a swap() proc.
Jan 21 2002, 2:24 pm
In response to Nadrew
but how would i invert it?
Sure you can swap one color with another color in an icon, but i would have to do that with all the rgb values? or is there a mathematical formula for calculating the invert?

Thats what i want to know, what is the formula and procedure for making any possible combination icon inverted.

FIREking
Jan 21 2002, 2:30 pm
In response to FIREking
rgb(255,255,255)-icon
Jan 21 2002, 2:35 pm
In response to Xooxer
Xooxer wrote:
rgb(255,255,255)-icon

so basically

src.icon += rgb(255,255,255)-src.icon

?
or

src.icon = rgb(255,255,255)-src.icon

?

Thanks,
FIREking
Jan 21 2002, 2:36 pm
In response to FIREking
FIREking wrote:
src.icon = rgb(255,255,255)-src.icon

You're inverting the colours, not adding/subtracting anything.. think about it.

--Tarmas.
Jan 21 2002, 2:36 pm
In response to FIREking
I believe:

src.icon -= rgb(255,255,255)

would be what you need...

~X
Jan 21 2002, 2:39 pm (Edited on Jan 21 2002, 2:47 pm)
In response to Xooxer
Thanks for being nice and helping me. Im not too swift when it comes to icon minipulation.

Plus ive been in the ugly world of direct x for a few days, and havent been in the byond environment for a little while.

[edit]
and one more thing. I seem to be having trouble restoring the icon to what it was before the change. For almost any operation. I want to be able to restore the icon back to what it was, without using initial because initial uses the VERY first instance of the icon, i would like to change it to the instance before the icon change.

Ive tried something like

mob/verb/test()
var/icon/I = icon(src.icon,src.icon_state)
var/icon/mem = icon(src.icon,src.icon_state)
I.icon -= rgb(255,255,255)
src.icon = I
sleep(20)
src.icon = mem

but to no avial(right or wrong?), that fails the second or third time.

and i was thinking about trying

mob/verb/test()
var/icon/I = icon(src.icon,src.icon_state)
I.icon -= rgb(255,255,255)
src.icon = I
sleep(20)
I.icon += rgb(255,255,255)
src.icon = I

but it seems that would not work. =\ Because im thinking that just adds the color white...
[/edit]

FIREking
Jan 21 2002, 2:43 pm
In response to FIREking
That was something I had requested a while back, and remembered that Lummox JR ( i think it was ) said that code snipet would invert the colors. I basicly pulled it from a previous post....

I have been trying to keep a professional attitude here as of late, so whatever my personal feelings are towards anyone, I'm trying not to let them interfere. In other words, your welcome.

~X :-)