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bjadams
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Posted: 15th May 2008 13:09
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I have the feeling that I am doing something wrong when setting up the initial commands before the main loop of my prog:



what is happeningis that the screen goes black (ok), then the dbLoadObject commands execute, and the screen gets half black and half shows Windows desktop (wrong!), then .X objects and decoded and programm starts to exectute.
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jason p sage
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Posted: 15th May 2008 16:53
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try moving sync stuff to the top....

Try Calling LoopGDK() not in a loop:

bool DoneGame=LoopGDK();
if(!DoneGame){dbSync();dbSync();};

then load your models, then ....

while(LoopGDK()){ etc etc.


Now I never tried these ideas, I never cared that for the first second or two the display is getting all put together..

but you might need to experiment to get what you consider a smart smooth looking start.


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since the objects i am loading are quite big, the "scrambled screen" shows for 8 or 10 seconds
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moving the sync commands to the top did not make any difference

it seems that the "screen scrambling" is caused by this command:

dbSetDisplayMode (1024,768,32);

any ideas?
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Yeah... Set Display Mode is the most Earth shattering command in this case IMHO... and maybe try setting it FIRST, THEN turning window off... you might get a full screen "window paint" before the "lag" so at least its black for a few seconds versus a "hole" of icons showing through.....just an idea.


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Oh.... then set sync stuff, set display stuff, cal dbSync() 2 times, THEN load your objects. Try that next. If you can decipher DBPro basic at all, I made a loading splash screen by changing the current bitmap to avoid that sort of thing in DarkBasic here: http://code.google.com/p/ironinfantrydbpro/ full source and media included there.


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Thanks a lot Jason. Finally it worked as it should:



if you even move around, or do not put one of the commands, it won't work!
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