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Posted: 29th Oct 2003 02:20

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hello people,
i just have a slight problemo here, i've made my loading screen and everything. before that my program just gives me a blank screen when loading, so i made up something for the user to look at. my problem is the loading screen appears, and then after its done loading to 100%, the program begins loading. so what am i missing? plz give me a snippet

thankx for advance

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Codger

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Posted: 29th Oct 2003 03:24

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sync : sync

it takes 2 syncs to get the image to the screen, why i don't know

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Posted: 29th Oct 2003 14:52

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sorry but that didnt work

i just need the two load together, the loading screen and the program.

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Hamish McHaggis

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Posted: 29th Oct 2003 15:50

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I can't say what your problem is without a bit of code, but this is kind of how your code should go...

sync on
load "loading" bitmap
sync
load game
game loop

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Joe Cooning

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Posted: 29th Oct 2003 16:32

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I always just turn on sync On at the very first line of my program. Then load the bitmap, usea seperate label for my code to load, then go on to the game. Like this.

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Sync On
Load Bitmap "whatever.bmp"
Gosub load_stuff
`Main loop
Do
`game
Sync
Loop

load_stuff:
`stuff to load
Return

Thats it. And don't bother putting a number after the bitmap. It's only there for then, and you only want it on the screen, not for later use in most cases.

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Posted: 29th Oct 2003 20:35

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ummmm, guys...i think u need to see my loading screen

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hide mouse
sync on

loadertext$ = "PLEASE WAIT WHILE LOADING..."
cls
set text font "comic sans ms"
set text size 20
center text 300,80,loadertext$

ink RGB(0,255,0),200000000
box 20,20,600,40

ink rgb(255,0,0),200000000
box 20,20,20,40
wait 500
box 20,20,40,40
wait 750
box 20,20,60,40
wait 200
box 20,20,80,40
wait 900
box 20,20,100,40
wait 690
box 20,20,120,40
wait 320
box 20,20,180,40
wait 570
box 20,20,200,40
wait 1000
box 20,20,220,40
wait 100
box 20,20,260,40
wait 350
box 20,20,280,40
wait 420
box 20,20,300,40
wait 300
box 20,20,360,40
wait 6000
box 20,20,380,40
wait 120
box 20,20,420,40
wait 100
box 20,20,480,40
wait 420
box 20,20,520,40
wait 320
box 20,20,540,40
wait 720
box 20,20,580,40
wait 520
box 20,20,600,40


ink RGB(255,255,255),200000000
center text 300,100,"Press any key to continue"

that was my loading screen! how do i make it load at the same time the program loads.

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Hamish McHaggis

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Posted: 29th Oct 2003 20:50 Edited at: 29th Oct 2003 20:50

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You mean, how do you load your level and update the bar while loading it. Well, I added a function for updating the bar, then you just have to plug in the percent loaded and it draws the box for you. You would load your media in place of the wait commands, then you update the bar accordingly.

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hide mouse
sync on

loadertext$ = "PLEASE WAIT WHILE LOADING..."
cls
set text font "comic sans ms"
set text size 20
center text 300,80,loadertext$

ink RGB(0,255,0),200000000
box 20,20,600,40
sync
sync

`Load first 25%
wait 1000
updateLoadBar(25)
sync
`Load next 20%
wait 800
updateLoadBar(45)
sync
`Load next 10%
wait 300
updateLoadBar(55)
sync
`Load next 30%
wait 900
updateLoadBar(85)
sync
`Load next 15%
wait 500
updateLoadBar(100)
sync

ink RGB(255,255,255),200000000
center text 300,100,"Press any key to continue"
sync

wait key
end

function updateLoadBar(percent)
ink RGB(255,0,0),200000000
box 20,20,600/100*percent,40
endfunction

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Posted: 3rd Nov 2003 01:05

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or what you could do i load stuff in the middle for ex:

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box 20,20,20,40
`load somthing
box 20,20,40,40
`load somthing else
box 20,20,60,40
`load yet another thing
box 20,20,80,40
etc...

that way when the loading screen is done, you KNOW your done loading stuff. just my two cents

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JoelJ

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Posted: 3rd Nov 2003 01:44 Edited at: 3rd Nov 2003 01:51

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that could become a WAY big line.
it would work if you divided all of them in 25 groups (4-per-percent done) or something. hey, that could be a good idea...

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