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-//
-// $Id: TileUtil.java,v 1.4 2001/11/01 01:40:42 shaper Exp $
-
-package com.threerings.cast;
-
-import java.awt.Image;
-import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
-
-import com.threerings.media.sprite.*;
-import com.threerings.media.tile.*;
-
-import com.threerings.cast.Log;
-
-/**
- * Miscellaneous tile-related utility functions.
- */ 
-public class TileUtil
-{
-    /**
-     * Renders each of the given <code>src</code> component frames
-     * into the corresponding frames of <code>dest</code>, allocating
-     * blank image frames for <code>dest</code> if none yet exist.
-     */
-    public static void compositeFrames (
-        MultiFrameImage[][] dest, MultiFrameImage[][] src)
-    {
-        for (int ii = 0; ii < dest.length; ii++) {
-            for (int orient = 0; orient < Sprite.NUM_DIRECTIONS; orient++) {
-                // create blank destination frames if needed
-                if (dest[ii][orient] == null) {
-                    dest[ii][orient] = createBlankFrames(src[ii][orient]);
-                }
-
-                // slap the images together
-                compositeFrames(dest[ii][orient], src[ii][orient]);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a new {@link MultiFrameImage} that has empty images in
-     * all frames.  The number of frames in the resulting multi frame
-     * image is the same as the frame count for <code>src</code>.
-     */
-    public static MultiFrameImage createBlankFrames (MultiFrameImage src)
-    {
-        // TODO: for now, just use the first frame from the source to
-        // get the width and height for all of the blank frames.  fix
-        // this hack soon.
-        Image img = src.getFrame(0);
-        int wid = img.getWidth(null), hei = img.getHeight(null);
-        return new BlankFrameImage(wid, hei, src.getFrameCount());
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns a two-dimensional array of multi frame images
-     * containing the frames of animation used to render the sprite
-     * while standing or walking in each of the directions it may
-     * face.
-     */
-    public static MultiFrameImage[][] getComponentFrames (
-        String imagedir, CharacterComponent c)
-    {
-        ActionSequence seqs[] = c.getActionSequences();
-        MultiFrameImage frames[][] =
-            new MultiFrameImage[seqs.length][Sprite.NUM_DIRECTIONS];
-
-	try {
-            for (int ii = 0; ii < seqs.length; ii++) {
-                ActionSequence as = seqs[ii];
-
-                // get the tile set containing the component tiles for
-                // this action sequence
-                String file = getImageFile(imagedir, as, c);
-                TileSet tset = null;
-
-                try {
-                    tset = as.tileset.clone(file);
-                } catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {
-                    Log.warning("Failed to clone tile set " +
-                                "[tset=" + as.tileset + "].");
-                    return null;
-                }
-
-                // get the number of frames of animation
-                int frameCount = tset.getNumTiles() / Sprite.NUM_DIRECTIONS;
-
-                for (int dir = 0; dir < Sprite.NUM_DIRECTIONS; dir++) {
-                    // retrieve all images for the sequence and direction
-                    Image imgs[] = new Image[frameCount];
-                    for (int jj = 0; jj < frameCount; jj++) {
-                        int idx = (dir * frameCount) + jj;
-                        imgs[jj] = tset.getTile(idx).img;
-                    }
-
-                    // create the multi frame image
-                    frames[ii][dir] = new MultiFrameImageImpl(imgs);
-                }
-	    }
-
-	} catch (TileException te) {
-	    Log.warning("Exception retrieving character images " +
-			"[te=" + te + "].");
-            return null;
-	}
-
-        return frames;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the file path for the given action sequence and component. 
-     */
-    protected static String getImageFile (
-        String imagedir, ActionSequence as, CharacterComponent c)
-    {
-        return imagedir + as.fileid + "_" + c.getFileId() + IMAGE_SUFFIX;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Renders each of the given <code>src</code> frames into the
-     * corresponding frames of <code>dest</code>.
-     */
-    protected static void compositeFrames (
-        MultiFrameImage dest, MultiFrameImage src)
-    {
-        int dsize = dest.getFrameCount(), ssize = src.getFrameCount();
-        if (dsize != ssize) {
-            Log.warning(
-                "Can't composite images with differing frame counts " +
-                "[dest=" + dsize + ", src=" + ssize + "].");
-            return;
-        }
-
-        for (int ii = 0; ii < dsize; ii++) {
-            Image dimg = dest.getFrame(ii);
-            Image simg = src.getFrame(ii);
-            dimg.getGraphics().drawImage(simg, 0, 0, null);
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * An implementation of the {@link MultiFrameImage} interface that
-     * initializes itself to contain a specified number of blank
-     * frames of the requested dimensions.
-     */
-    protected static class BlankFrameImage implements MultiFrameImage
-    {
-        /**
-         * Constructs a blank frame image.
-         */
-        public BlankFrameImage (int width, int height, int frameCount)
-        {
-            _imgs = new Image[frameCount];
-            for (int ii = 0; ii < frameCount; ii++) {
-                _imgs[ii] = new BufferedImage(
-                    width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
-            }
-        }
-
-        // documentation inherited
-        public int getFrameCount ()
-        {
-            return _imgs.length;
-        }
-
-        // documentation inherited
-        public Image getFrame (int index)
-        {
-            return _imgs[index];
-        }
-
-        /** The frame images. */
-        protected Image _imgs[];
-    }
-
-    /** The image file name suffix appended to component image file names. */
-    protected static final String IMAGE_SUFFIX = ".png";
-}