Endless Paradigm

This is a perl script I wrote to automate mucking about with multi-image 01-12.bmp's, since I tend to prefer my own wallpapers but still want waves and such. It's a commandline utility that automagically extracts jpegs and records their padded lengths, then adds the correct padding when rebuilding. I'm aware of other utilities out there but the one I have tried didn't work, and is a gui app which I tend to loathe.

Usage is as such:
extracting
0112arc.pl -e 01-12.bmp
0112arc.pl -e 01-12.bmp imagedir

Now the images can be replaced with anything of the same size or smaller.

packing
0112arc.pl -c /psp/ctf/fnord/vsh/resources/01-12.bmp /some/other/dir

The directory can be left off and it will assume that it's BMPFILE-out. You will need an existing multi-image 01-12.bmp to extract. I have included a sample with 30 images, each allowed 32725 bytes.

If you're on windows without perl and wish to use this, see http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html and look for the portable version.

todo (maybe)
  png support
  option to set the image sizes by reading vshmain.prx
  option to set the image size -in- vshmain.prx

Oooh!

Nice! I'll try this out, as whenever I try to replace 01-12.bmps It doesn't work...

Cool but does't look much easier to me,.

i best try it out,. :) (i liek gui's,.. )

Good job.

Vegetano1 Wrote: [ -> ](i liek gui's,.. )

All of us loves guis xD

GUI fooie! Having to use that horrid directory selection dialog is painful (looking at you ctftool :P). I have cygwin installed so it's usually a matter of
01<tab> /ps<tab>p3<tab>vs<tab>mo<tab>01<tab><enter>
>.>
For repeated use:
!01<enter>
:P

hasn't there already been one of these around for a long time?

infact i know there has...

nice though.