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Coop
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Posted: 21st Jul 2003 05:34
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Hrmmmm....this may be simple but I am not sure how..to link a button in a menu to go to a different screen...or how to place the buttons at all..

Single Player

Multi Player

A web site

Exit

If somone could help me with making that menu work I would be glad.
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Shady Simpson
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Posted: 21st Jul 2003 15:26
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well,there isn't any DBPro Native Commands that actually create buttons but there is a number of ways to get round this:

1) Buy RobK's blue GUI plugin.

2) make a function that checks where the mouse has been clicked. (see source - I hope you understand it)

3) Use a little program called DBBuilder, it's free and makes buttons and the source code which you can insert in your code (can't remeber the address)

Hope this helps you

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Baneblade
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Posted: 21st Jul 2003 19:42
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Try www.Binarymoon.co.uk -There a tutorial covering a game called "Limit Rush" and included is the menu tutorial
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Chenak
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Heres the code for a button function that may be useful to you. You need to get the button coordinates when the screen res is set to 1024 by 768. Then whatever your resolution is set to, the coordinates will change with respect the current res.



and use the code like this:



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Coop
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Posted: 21st Jul 2003 21:01
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I now have DB Builder, How do I use it to make words appear like in the above stated menu?

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Coop
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@Inferno how would I get the button cordinates and where would I place them?

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Chenak
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2003 03:18
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This code will display the coords you require, put it in the main loop.

mx#=mousex()
my#=mousey()

text 0,0,str$(mx#)
text 0,12,str$(my#)

The coords you require are as follows:

x1a#= the lowest x coordinate of the button
x1b#= the highest x coordinate of the button
y1a#= the lowest y coordinate of the button
y1b#= the highest y coordinate of the button


hope this helps

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Shady Simpson
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2003 12:36 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2003 12:38
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"how do i make text in the buttons" (or something like that)

I think, if I remember right that you load a background image, which in this case would be your menu with all the text on and then make the button areas.

e.g. Make an image of your main menu with all the text on and everything, then in DBBuilder load this image as a background and then select the button box and drag where you want the user to be able to click. Then view the source code, copy and paste it into DBDBPro and hey presto! it should work.

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