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Ghthor
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Posted: 11th Apr 2008 07:42
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The documentation says that this determines your background color, as of right now I just figured out that the first Parameter determines the color of the dbText() output. I haven't figured out what the second parameter does. Anyone know?

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Lilith
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Posted: 11th Apr 2008 17:16
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Ostensibly it sets the background color when you do a dbCLS(). I've never tested that, however, since I usually use dbCLS with a background color specified as a parameter.

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Ghthor
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Ah well using dbCLS() works nicely, but it just bugs me that I"m passing dbInk() stuff and I don't know what its doing with it. It might be the background color for the text.

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Lilith
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Posted: 11th Apr 2008 23:25
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But having a background on text both dangerous and useful. You don't always want a flat color background under your text. You may want to draw it over some part of an image. If you placed a background color along with the text you'd be blocking out a portion of the image. With the background, however, you don't have to worry about clearing the area under the text when you write over it.

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Lilith
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Posted: 16th Apr 2008 18:29
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@Ghthor

I just stumbled on this last night. There's a function call that sets the background to opaque and one that sets it to transparent. I guess transparent is the default. AAR, they are

dbSetTextOpaque ()

and

dbSetTextTransparent()

That'll teach me to read everything.

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Ghthor
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Yea I knew about those functions, it still doesn't clear up what the hell dbInk() does with the second parameter. I'll test what this does and post back my findings in a bit.

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I'd think the opaque setting would cause the second parameter to become the background behind the letter when you output it.

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