I have just bought and put on my system Darkbasic Pro. I then upgraded it to v4.1
When I tried to put in my database program I was writing from DB v1.12, I hit some trouble.
First my menu system uses pasted images and their widths\co-ords to to work out if I am on a button or not. This was to cut the drain on the system (like sprites do). Also to allow text to go infront if I wanted.
Unfortuently when I ran the coding, I found that the pasted
Bitmaps (loaded as
images), appeared blotchy, fuzzy, blurred etc. This can be seen if you look closely at my pictures below. Is there a way to get round this, as the bitmaps on DB classic were clear crisp and very well done.
old menu
new menu
My next problem was the input. On DB classic, you had to turn off the background to see the input if you were in 3D mode. This does not appear to be the case with DB, but if you do not turn the background off, the menu system vanishes. Wehn the background is on, the text is very blurred. This can be seen below, and the word that is supposed to be there is "Mrs"
input
My last problem that is that the 3D object is now very dark instead of being nice and light, as you can see below
old skull
new skull
For those who think that they can solve this, I have a zip file of all the required files. When unzipped, all images should go into a sub folder called "images". The address is
http://members.lycos.co.uk/doversubaquaclub/evidence/database.zip.
In testing, to click on a button, just use mouse and left-click. To alter details, press box next to detail for the input.
Thanks
RED GENERAL
My computer melts regulary - perhaps it likes being fondue
