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JoelJ
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Posted: 7th Oct 2003 07:34
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can anyone tell me a good way of making a menu? thanx

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Jess T
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Posted: 7th Oct 2003 10:56 Edited at: 7th Oct 2003 10:57
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Check out this thread...
http://darkbasic.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=17057&b=10

This is where i posted on the menu...

But to summarise, the menu needs to be a seperate loop from the main program... and then you just get the mousex() and mousey() and see if they are over a button and if they are, then check if its being clicked and if it is, do something...

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Gotta be more specific when asking your questions....

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JoelJ
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Posted: 7th Oct 2003 19:36
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Jess: Thanx that helps

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Posted: 8th Oct 2003 20:00 Edited at: 8th Oct 2003 20:00
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An easy way of doing it is just positioning the picture and then doing something like

Sorry, can't remember all the code, the mouseclick bit might be worng. I've been programming in Actionscript recently.
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Hmm, yes, but that doesnt cater for when you want the game/program to pause when the menu is up...

But otherwise (if you dont need/want it to pause) that is the way to do it...

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In many games, when the menu comes up the screen behind it darkens to bring the menu more into focus, but you can still see the game paused. If the menu is in a seperate loop you may need to have a different background or a full-screen menu. Bear in mind that I am not sure about this. [img] [/img]Maybe there is some pause object command so that everything stops, and then some resume object command for when you close the menu.

[img] [/img]Hope I helped.

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Ah, but the game becomes paused when it enters another loop (ie the If Then functions for the controls and AI etc are not read Therefore, nothing happens) And the screen can stay the same, you dont need to have a full screen menu, as long as you dont Clear the screen (Cls) and to stop object animation, you just use Stop Object 1...

And to darken the screen , you can just position a dark light infront of the camera when the menu is called

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THANK YOU! next and final..the milk shape..
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