Learning 2D Game Programming With BlitzMax

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Burpy,
Yes you are correct that it would be better to just load the image once. This would probably necessitate doing the other thing that you advocated which was to use a fixed reference for each type.

When writing these tutorials, I'm normally biased towards code clarity, sometimes at the expense of speed and appropriateness.