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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Text over sprites

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MrSteve
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Posted: 7th Apr 2010 00:52
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Hey Gang, do any of you clever people know how I might display my text over a sprite, at the moment i am using the traditional "print" command but I do know of the "text 0,0,"what"" as well. Any ideas?

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Hodgey
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Posted: 7th Apr 2010 03:14
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Hi, in theory ( I haven't actually done it ) you could use the "text 0,0,string" command to display text over a sprite. Just use the x and y variables of the sprite in the text command e.g "text spritex, spritey, "sprite1"". Make sure the text is drawn after the sprite though.

Hope this helps and let me know if it works.

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MrSteve
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Posted: 7th Apr 2010 11:14
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I do apologise I have indeed misled you, what I meant be text over sprite is that can be seen on top of a sprite, In my case, my background which is a scrolling starfield is a sprite, but this covers my screen and my text cannot be seen underneath it in a layer sense, I would like to know if there is a way to draw it on top of the background,


but thanks for the help, sorry to mislead you!

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Posted: 7th Apr 2010 16:44 Edited at: 7th Apr 2010 16:46
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Make sure you are doing "paste sprite" instead of "sprite". The paste sprite command is ordered as you put them in the program whereas the "sprite s,x,y,i" command has an order all it's own and has to be given a specific ordering number to render them one on top of each other. Also, if you do your "paste sprite s,x,y" before your text commands, then your text will appear on top.

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Almost forgot! Be sure to "hide sprite s" or it will still be on top of your text.... No, the "hide sprite" will not affect your "paste sprite" command.

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MrSteve
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Posted: 7th Apr 2010 19:37
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cool thanks mate, i will try that as soon as the BETA11 decides its gonna work on my machine!

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Sepnon
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Posted: 7th Apr 2010 20:03
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Try these:

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MrSteve
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Posted: 7th Apr 2010 20:57
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okay, where in the code should that nest?

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MrSteve
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Posted: 7th Apr 2010 20:57
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of course again I will try that when DBPro works again!

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Posted: 7th Apr 2010 23:01
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There are other ways than pasting sprites - better ways IMO: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=168254&b=1

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