One of my students is currently writing an audio editor in C and WinAPI as his course project. He obviously has some difficulties understanding certain concepts, so it takes some time. I felt bored and decided to write one of the main pieces from the users’ perspective, i.e. drawing waveforms, in plain FASM.

The source code from the attachment actually produces a 24-bit BMP image containing a waveform for the specified 16-bit signed PCM WAVE file. Everything is done at compile time.

Since I’m obviously abusing FASM’s features the process is quite slow (and I didn’t bother to optimize it). It took me about 20 seconds to draw waveform for a 1 minute WAVE file, but there’s a SkipFactor parameter that lets you tell the “program” to only use every Nth sample in its calculations. Having its value around 32 or 64 allowed me to decrease the compile time for 1 minute WAVE file to about 6 seconds.

All the parameters are at the top of the source, namely:
* SourceFile is… path to the source WAVE file
* Width is the width of the image to be drawn
* Height is the height of the image to be drawn
* SkipFactor is for performance vs precision tweaking.

Might be useful for some crazy guys out there who want to understand some FASM features along with WAVE and BMP formats.

I want to vote for both options.

Wow

Can't wait for: Crazy development 2

Definitely both. It is obviously crazy, but it also follows in line of many other similarly insane applications of fasm that were posted here over the years. For example that TGA file with generated image of Mandelbrot set, later extended with compression to GIF. Or a sound file made in the same thread.

Having some control over the window that shows up while the compilation is in progress might make things a bit better for “users” of such FASM applications. I personally lack two things:
* equivalent of display directive that would allow setting some line of text to be shown in the window;
* some directive that would allow to set the position of the progress bar.

As for the second, maybe it’s only my experience but in my case it either shows up for a tiny period of time and immediately disappears or, in the case of this code, hangs there for half a minute with the same position of the progress bar. Giving more control to the code being assembled might have improved the situation in cases authors can provide useful information and care about doing so.

i wonder how reversive img2wav would look

DimonSoft the very student of TG, ex me for offtop?

Sorry, don’t get what you ask about. What do you abbreviate as TG?

Tomasz Grysztar

Perhaps something like the -v2 switch that fasmg has? It could be a trivial addition for the console fasm, but making it work with the GUI would require more work.