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oli chose123

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Posted: 16th Apr 2007 15:50

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I've been trying to get text and variables to show on sprites in my small game, but i doesn't seem to do anything. My first guess would be that the text is drawn under the sprites, if that's even posible. Any ideas?

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MonoCoder

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Posted: 17th Apr 2007 19:51

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Sprites are rendered over the text by default. To get text over them, you should hide them, use paste sprite to draw them, then add the text after pasting.

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LBFN

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Posted: 20th Apr 2007 04:04 Edited at: 20th Apr 2007 16:29

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You could paste the sprite, print the text on it and then grab the image and use it for your sprite.

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` text on a sprite   LB 4/19/07
sync on
sync rate 60
hide mouse
load image "C:redbutton.bmp",1
x=screen width()/2
y=screen height()/2
sprite 1,x,y,1
paste sprite 1,x,y
sync
delete sprite 1
set text font "Arial bold"
set text size 12
ink rgb(255,255,255),0
red=19
a$=str$(red)
text x+12,y+40,"red="+a$
get image 2,x,y,x+65,y+55
cls
do 
  mx=mousex()
  my=mousey()
  sprite 1,mx,my,2
  sync
  if returnkey()=1 then exit
loop
show mouse
end

Really, this could be done by simply pasting an image on the screen (or to a bitmap), printing text on top of it and then grabbing the image for sprite use, so it does not have to be done this way.

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aluseus GOD

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Posted: 21st Apr 2007 19:10

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` text on a sprite   LB 4/19/07
sync on
sync rate 60
hide mouse
load image "redbutton.bmp",1
x=screen width()/2
y=screen height()/2
sprite 1,x,y,1
paste sprite 1,x,y
sync
delete sprite 1
set text font "Arial bold"
set text size 12
ink rgb(255,255,255),0
red=19
a$=str$(red)
text x+12,y+40,"red="+a$
get image 2,x,y,x+65,y+55
cls
do
sprite 1,x,y,1
  mx=mousex()
  my=mousey()
  sprite 2,mx,my,2
  sync
  if returnkey()=1 then exit
loop
show mouse
end

reformatted to actually work....

Can you make the area around text transparent?

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LBFN

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Posted: 22nd Apr 2007 03:12

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@aluseus

Excuse me??? The request was

Quote: "I've been trying to get text and variables to show on sprites in my small game"

Where do you get the idea that the code had to be reformatted to actually work? The code draws text on a sprite as requested and works fine. Your reformatted code additionally leaves a sprite on the screen, but what does that have to do with putting text on a sprite? How do you figure that the code needed to be reformatted?

LB

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aluseus GOD

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Posted: 22nd Apr 2007 22:26

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Sorry, it's just that the code didn't work for me when I tried it.
But it's probably just me, sorry!

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oli chose123

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Posted: 26th Apr 2007 01:34

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thanks a lot, it works well now

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LBFN

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Posted: 26th Apr 2007 07:00

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@ oli chose123

I'm glad to hear it helped. I know that it tested fine for me.

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Posted: 30th Apr 2007 08:00

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You can also add to LBFN's snippet so it does all the pasting and grabbing on a hidden bitmap - useful if you have a lot to do and don't want to see it happen.

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Cabe

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Posted: 7th May 2007 20:30

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^^ I did something similar to that

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rem -- Display score --

p1$=mid$(str$(score),1)
  if val(p1$)<>0
     sc1=val(p1$)
  endif

p2$=mid$(str$(score),2)
  if score<10
     sc2=11
  endif
  if score>=10
     sc2=val(p2$)
  endif

p3$=mid$(str$(score),3)
  if score<100
     sc3=11
  endif
  if score>=100
     sc3=val(p3$)
  endif

p4$=mid$(str$(score),4)
  if score<1000
     sc4=11
  endif
  if score>=1000
     sc4=val(p4$)
  endif

p5$=mid$(str$(score),5)
  if score<10000
     sc5=11
  endif
  if score>=10000
     sc5=val(p5$)
  endif

p6$=mid$(str$(score),6)
  if score<100000
     sc6=11
  endif
  if score>=100000
     sc6=val(p6$)
  endif

p7$=mid$(str$(score),7)
  if score<1000000
     sc7=11
  endif
  if score>=1000000
     sc7=val(p7$)
  endif


sprite 28,65,9,sc1
sprite 29,80,9,sc2
sprite 30,95,9,sc3
sprite 31,110,9,sc4
sprite 32,125,9,sc5
sprite 33,140,9,sc6
sprite 34,155,9,sc7

My code uses a set of number sprites (i.e. 1.bmp, 2.bmp etc) and can support values up to 9,999,999
I used this to display the players score in a 2D game.

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