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AppGameKit Classic Chat / having trouble with DeleteText() (Tier 1)

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100Megaton
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Posted: 13th Oct 2013 21:46
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Hi Folks, I am sure I'm doing something wrong... but I can't for the life of me figure out what. I'm creating a menu using text, when I try to remove that text using DeleteText though, nothing happens. I even tried using ClearScreen() to no avail.

Below is my code. loadMainMenu() is called once, before the main loop begins.



Can someone point me in the correct direction? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Marl
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Posted: 14th Oct 2013 00:07 Edited at: 14th Oct 2013 00:09
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Firstly, I wouldn't load the font every time the function is called. The code indicated leaves 5 images in memory.

As to the reported problem, the makeMenutext function takes num as a parameter, but doesn't use it - the value of num is replaced by the return from the createText call.

You need to use the other format of CreateText;

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The Zoq2
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Posted: 14th Oct 2013 00:09
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Your problem is that when you create the text with the makeMenuText function, you are letting AppGameKit decide on an ID for the text by doing:


Since you want to assign your own ID, you should be using

or



I can't remember which is the right order

Say ONE stupid thing and it ends up as a forum signature forever. - Neuro Fuzzy
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Marl
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Posted: 14th Oct 2013 00:14 Edited at: 14th Oct 2013 00:15
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Someone is asleep at the keyboard, $text is wrong in any format
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The Zoq2
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Posted: 14th Oct 2013 00:17
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Well, im not asleep (yet) but I have not been using T1 for a year and I have been doing some PHP latley which has the $ before every variable

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100Megaton
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Posted: 14th Oct 2013 13:04
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Thank you both! As suggested, I moved the loading of the font image out of that function and into a place where it will be loaded just once, and am instead calling it in the function using SetTextFontImage().

After I switched createText to the format you both suggested, everything worked as intended. Thank you again, I appreciate the help; apparently I'm a bigger noob than I thought I was. >_<
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Ancient Lady
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Posted: 14th Oct 2013 16:34 Edited at: 14th Oct 2013 18:08
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100megaton, the core problem, as others pointed out, is that you are using the wrong form for CreateText. Use 'CreateText(text$,num)' so that it uses the number you want.

EDIT: Sorry, it should be CreateText(num,text$).

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Ancient Lady
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