The pictures then need to be put in a special place where Inform can reach them. Suppose the Inform project is called Example.inform. Then we need to create a folder alongside it called "Example Materials", and create a further folder inside that called "Figures". The actual images go inside "Figures". So we might then have files like so:


Example.inform
Example Materials
   Figures
       Woodlands.png
       Blackberry.jpg
       Red Admiral Butterfly.png


Inside Inform, the source text for a project always tries to avoid talking about filenames - we need a better way to refer to the individual figures.


We do this by declaring each figure with a sentence like the following examples:


Figure of Woodlands is the file "Woodlands.png".
Figure 2 is the file "Red Admiral Butterfly.png".


display (figure name)This phrase causes the figure to be displayed in the centre of the screen visible to the player. If the option "one time only" is used, it will have no effect if the figure has been displayed before. Example:


display the Figure of Woodlands;