This sounds as though it can be done in the children's authoring 
environment -- and very quickly. Tell me more....

Cheers,

Alan

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At 1:35 PM +0200 7/28/01, Frantisek Fuka wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am new to Squeak and I'd like to create some sort of tile-based 
>graphical RPG (something like Angband or NetHack) in Squeak. I know 
>there's lots of ways to create the graphic output but I'm not sure 
>which is the right one.
>
>First of all, I'll create a file tiles.png in PhotoShop, which will 
>contain the "palette" of all tiles that can appear in the game: 
>Monsters, items, wall, floor section, player etc... Then I'll import 
>this graphics to Squeak
>
>tiles _ Form fromFileNamed: 'tiles.png'
>
>Then, I create SystemWindow (or should I use something different?) 
>in which the main game map will appear. Now, I need the method that 
>will simply put 16x16 area of the tiles form at an arbitrary 
>coordinates into the SystemWindow while taking into account the 
>transparency of original png file so that I can i.e. display the 
>floor section and a chest standing on this section. Which method 
>should I use?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
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