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elloran

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Posted: 11th Mar 2008 16:32

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Hi, i have two problems:

First one:
i have set the backdrop on from the standard camera, but now the text is hidden behind the backdrop Oo

Second one:
i program a console like view for an server-program. so i want that when the textlines together are bigger than the screenheight the camera moves down to see the new line. the upperst line should fade away.
my camera moves down by the right value but the cameraview is still on the place it starts from. nothing changed...but dbCameraPositionY tells a new value.

thanks so far...elloran

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Diggsey

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Posted: 11th Mar 2008 19:04

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1) You must draw the text every loop, because the backdrop will clear the screen straight after the sync.

2) Only 3D objects are affected by the camera, you must alter the position of text yourself.

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KISTech

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Posted: 11th Mar 2008 21:37

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I use this on my server to have running status display.

At anywhere in the code you want something added to the status you call it with,

SysWindow("This variable is : "+str$(thisVariable))

In your main loop just call this function with

SysWindow("")

and it doesn't shift anything up, but allows you to put it all out to screen again for the sync. The second loop is what prints the contents of the array. It starts printing at line 7 because I have other stuff in my main loop that gets printed above that.

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global dim SysWindow$(35) as string

function SysWindow(msg$ as string)

   ` if there is a message to add, move everything up in the array
   if msg$ <> ""
      for x = 1 to 33
         SysWindow$(x) = SysWindow$(x+1)
      next x
      ` add the current message to the bottom
      SysWindow$(34) = msg$
   endif

   ` Print the array to the screen
   for x = 7 to 40
      text 10,x*10,SysWindow$(x-6)
   next x

endfunction

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jason p sage

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Posted: 13th Mar 2008 23:57

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LOL - thats the first console code I've seen here yet! LOL

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