What are sprites? How sprites are used to create an animation?

A Sprite is a bitmap that is displayed on the screen that is often moving around (like a cartoon character). Animated sprites are a sequence of bitmaps that when rendered with a delay between each frame gives an animation. In the example application "Sprite.Zip" we have just read the cursorposition and drawn a rotating MousePtr Sprite their!

A typical Sprite Structure :-

typedef struct SPRITE
{  
  LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE7 Surf;
  int nFrames;
  int iCurFrame;
  int MaxFrameDelay,int CurFrameDelay;
  int Width, Height;
}SPRITE;

This SPRITE struct specifies that we need a DirectDrawSurface to hold the Bitmap (Containing the sequence of frames drawn one after another), Number of frames, The Current Frame, The MaximumDelay of a Frame, the Current Frame Delay, and the width and height of the SpriteBitmap

We have to set the Sprite by "SetSprite" functioncall with the necessary structre intialization elements, Draw the Sprite by DrawSprite function call that selects the current frame and draws it(The Frame Drawn will Depend on the time elapsed since the App started)

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