[i6/blorb] Pictures not showing up in a blorbed game?

Authoring Inform 7
#1

Hey all -

I’m trying, for no good reason, to get images to display in a glulx game without using I7. I’ve borrowed the cBlorb.exe from Inform’s release package and written a blurb file, and the whole thing compiles fine, except that the blorb program says:

Completed: wrote blorb file of size 792624 bytes (2 picture(s), 0 sound(s))

but calling glk_image_draw on the resource numbers does nothing (Resource numbers 2 & 3, because I have a cover image, which now I think about it also never shows up). (Specifically, I’m calling:

glk_image_draw(BaseWindow.refnum, i, imagealign_InlineCenter, 0);

and it’s returning false.)

Am I missing something? Using the trace option suggests cBlorb is finding the images correctly.

cheers!
jon

#2

What interpreter are you using to test with? It might be that the interpreter doesn’t support inline images in text buffer windows: one way to check would be to make the game call

glk_gestalt(gestalt_DrawImage,wintype_TextBuffer);

and then print the result. If that doesn’t help but the Blorb file somewhere publicly available and I’m happy to have a look at it.

#3

Aw, heck. I ran it this morning and there they were. My compile-and-run batchfile was pointing to the .ulx and not the .gblorb.

Going back to sleep now…

cheers
jon