How to use png (or any other transparency image) with devkitppc

Im using devkitppc and ive been reading the tutorials at www.codemii.com and they are great but i couldnt find anything saying how to use png images only jpeg. Is there a tutorial somewhere explaining how to use transparent images in my games?

There libpng which will render transparent pngs for you. It's not that hard to use.

You can also use libwiisprite, GRRLIB, or libwiigui libraries to more easily render transparent pngs

ok. I got it all installed... but it appears to be C++ so im confused... i learned C but not C++. Since when does the devkitPro use C++ :S

C++ is really just C with more features? What code don't you understand? If you post it, I can most likely explain it to you.

Also, for the record, GRRLIB is in C, not C++.

im using the wiispriteslib ... and my source file is C i dont get how i can combine both languages like that. I know C++ is simmilar but wouldnt it create problems in my C file?

libwiisprite requires that all files programmed with it are in C++ libwiisprite is not part of devkitPRO

General programming info:
To link in a C file to C++ source code you can

 extern "C" {
   #include "MyCCodeHeader.h"
 }

(This may not work with libwiisprite though)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/09/2009 08:43PM by Arikado.

The simplest thing is just to rename any .c files to .cpp - then they will still work the same but be compiled as C++