Problems displaying image in C++ with SDL - c++

Code here: https://gist.github.com/protectivetoast83/25301772cbc6f13e6e07
images of problem
The program should be displaying a single gray rectangle at coordinates 32, 32 on the window however it was also displaying a second one at coordinates 0,0.
I added a cout statement on line 60 of gameWorld.cpp and the program started working correctly. The program works correctly only so long as I have that cout statement there.
What's going on and how can I fix it?

Line 57 of gameWorld.cpp looks suspicious:
if(objSet[i].checkActive());
That semicolon ends the if statement ("if object i is active, do nothing"), and the subsequent four lines are a bare inner block that always gets executed. (This explains why, in your second screenshot, you're looping over all objects from i=0 to 99 as shown by the text box in the lower-right corner. It doesn't tell me why adding line 60 changes your code's behaviour, though.)

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Why is my line not showing up? [inkscape]

Just getting into Inkscape. When I use the pencil or "Draw Bezier lines.." buttons, I follow the instructions in the manual to get the intended effect to get a horizontal or vertical line.
Except, I cannot see the line itself. In the examples the line shows up, but after I stop highlighting it, it goes away completely. The other lines turn out fine. Below is a picture of my screen.
image
My opacity, and alpha are correct for the line segment (as you can see from the screenshot), so I was wondering what I'm doing wrong here.
Thanks!
Try setting a stroke instead of a fill. And make sure you are in a visible layer.

How to detect mouse hover over a line plot in Qt?

I am new to C++,Qt and Visual Studio and this is my first post on Stack Overflow.
I apologize in advance if this is a repeated question, I tried searching for a similar question but couldn't find one. Let me know if this is a repeated question and I will delete it.
I am trying to create a line plot using QWidget::paintEvent(). The line plot I am drawing is actually a QPainterPath. I want to detect when the mouse hovers over my line plot and so I create a small rectangle where my mouse cursor is and detect when this rectangle intersects with my line plot using bool QPainterPath::intersects() function. The problem is that this function returns true even when my mouse is not exactly over my line plot. In the Image 1 (I am not allowed to embed images yet) my line plot is the thick black curve and the bool QPainterPath::intersects() returns true even when my cursor is over the yellow region. As per the Qt document this is because:
There is an intersection if any of the lines making up the rectangle crosses a part of the path or if any part of the rectangle overlaps with any area enclosed by the path.
There is no way to have a QPainterPath without any enclosed area as Qt only provides two types of fill for QPainterPath: Qt::OddEvenFill or Qt::WindingFill. (To be honest, I find this kind of annoying, since an open path is a series of line segments connected end-to-end, if someone wants to enclose an area they can easily connect the first and last point using either QPainterPath::lineTo() or QPainterPath::moveTo() functions)
Anyway, I decided to get smarter than Qt and drew two extra QPainterPath with pathUp being a few pixels above my line plot and pathDn being a few pixels below my line plot. Image 2 shows these 3 line plots, red one is pathUp, black one is real line plot and green one is pathDn. I thought I coould detect the intersection in the QWidget::mouseMoveEvent() by using the following code:
// cRect: Rectangle at mouse cursor position
if((pathUp.intersects(cRect) && (!pathDn.intersects(cRect))) || ((!pathUp.intersects(cRect)) && pathDn.intersects(cRect)))
{
qDebug() << "Intersects";
}
But this still produces wrong results because now the enclosed area is different, as you can see in Image 3 the green area is an enclosed area of pathDn and red area is the enclosed area of pathUp. The thick black curve is again the line plot that I want to detect my mouse hover on. This enclosed area is not affected by Qt::setFillRule of QPainterPath.
What's even more frustrating is that I tried this technique using QPolygonF instead of QPainterPath on QWidget and the results were exactly the same. I also tried QGraphicsView, there I used QGraphicsPathItem to create my line plot and then used QGraphicsScene::focusItemChanged() signal to detect when I click on my line plot. It again produced the same result of detecting the click when my cursor is over the enclosed area. I do not want to create a custom QGraphicsItem (unless I absolutely have to) just to reimplement it's hoverEnterEvent() and hoverLeaveEvent() method because of the limitations imposed on the boundingRect() of the QGraphicsItem as explained in Qt Docs:
QGraphicsScene expects all items boundingRect() and shape() to remain unchanged unless it is notified. If you want to change an item's geometry in any way, you must first call prepareGeometryChange() to allow QGraphicsScene to update its bookkeeping.
Since I making a plot in real-time the boundingRect() will change quite frequently (> 20 Hz), which will result in an extra computational burden on the software. Is there any way I can solve my problem without creating a custom QGraphicsItem?
P.S. I have been using Stack Overflow for many years whenever I got stuck. I just never made an account here because I never needed to post anything. You guys are the best and I am very happy to be a part of this community!

is it possible to position letter x in center of console, drop at 100pixels/second, and raise 50pixels on click?

This is essentially the rudimentary version of the motion in jetpack joyride but instead of the joyrider falling at 100pixels per second, it would be the letter "x" falling at 100pixels per second from the exact middle of the console and a click event would cause it to rise at 50 pixels per second. I am really new at this so if this isn't possible in c++ please let me know. Thanks.
EDIT: I am using sublime text to write my code, and the MinGW compiler.
No. Characters on the console can only appear on the character grid; you can't move them around to pixel-exact coordinates.
For what it's worth, this would be trivial to do in a web browser.

Preserve SetPixel Changes made by C++ Program on Repaint

I am writing a C++ program that uses SetPixel() to shift the contents of the screen down several pixels. The program is supposed to be a recreation of the visual effects of the well known Melting Screen Worm. Although the program works, I am running in to a problem when the screen is repainted. Whenever a repaint happens, the pixel shifts are lost. I understand that this is standard behavior for SetPixel(), but I would like to find a way to stop it, or at least reapply the pixel shifts after a repaint so that it appears as if the changes were never removed. How can I do this?

Garbage on top of screen when displaying text over image in devkit pro

I am currently using the 16-bit libnds (Whith devkitpro) example as a basis and am trying to display text and the png background image on the same screen (in this example it is the top sceen). I am having a similar issue as this post.
I have garbage on the top of the screen (only ifconsoleInit(...) is called), similar to the first problem in the thread. The only problem is that I am displaying the background image in a different method so the fixes they made in that thread did not apply to this.
All I am looking for is whether there is a way to fix the garbage on the top of the screen. If there is a more efficient/better way to display the image, I am willing to accept it, just I haven't found a detailed enough tutorial on how to load an image as a background without using this method. Any help would be appreciated. I will answer any further questions anyone has about what is not working.
You can find the project attached here.
Sorry for the long delay but there are a few issues with your code. The first is that in Mode 4 the only background that can be set up as a 16 bit bitmap is layer 3. http://answers.drunkencoders.com/what-graphics-modes-does-the-ds-support/
Next, the layers all share a single chunk of background memory and your garbage is coming from you overwriting part of the bitmap in video memory with the characters for the font and the map for the console background. A simple solution is to move the bitmap by settings its map base to 1. This offsets its in graphics memory by 16KB which leaves 16KB of room for your text layer (this only works because we cant display the entire 256x256 image on screen at once due the the resolution of the DS as 256x256x2bytes fills up all of memory bank A...to be more correct we should assign another memory bank to the main background...but since we cant see the bottom 70 or so lines of pixels of our image anyway its okay that they didnt quite make it into video memory).
libnds also has a macro to make finding the memory for your background a bit simpler called "bgGetGfxPtr(id)" which will get a pointer to your background gfx in video memory after you set it up so you dont have to try to calculate it via an offset from BG_GFX.
In all the changes to your code should look like this (I added a version of this to the libnds code faq at : http://answers.drunkencoders.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=289&action=edit&message=1)
int main(void) {
//Top screen pic init
videoSetMode(MODE_4_2D);
vramSetBankA(VRAM_A_MAIN_BG);
int bg = bgInit(3, BgType_Bmp16, BgSize_B16_256x256, 1,0);
decompress(drunkenlogoBitmap, bgGetGfxPtr(bg), LZ77Vram); //Displays/decompresses top image
//videoSetMode(MODE_4_2D);
consoleInit(0,0, BgType_Text4bpp, BgSize_T_256x256, 4,0, true, true);
iprintf("\x1b[1;1HThe garbage is up here ^^^^^.");
iprintf("\x1b[21;1HTesting the text function...");
while(1) {
swiWaitForVBlank();
scanKeys();
if (keysDown()&KEY_START) break;
}
return 0;
}