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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Changing resolutions messes with my sprites

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CumQuaT
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Posted: 13th Aug 2011 16:09
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Hi all,

When I change resolutions mid-program using the "SET DISPLAY MODE" command, my sprites don't exist anymore... Is this normal? Here's an example of the code:



The above code will crash, saying that the sprite doesn't exist, but if I remove the SET DISPLAY MODE line, it works perfectly... Any ideas how this can be fixed?

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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 13th Aug 2011 17:14
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Yeah everything gets cleared when we use SET DISPLAY MODE so any image, sound, and music we load need to be reloaded and every sprite recreated.

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CumQuaT
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Posted: 13th Aug 2011 17:46 Edited at: 13th Aug 2011 17:47
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Oh my god, serious? That sucks balls... Thanks for letting me know though.

So there's no way to change resolution mid program without consequences like that?

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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 13th Aug 2011 21:01
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Yup... but if you have it all in a setup routine or function it's easy to redo everything before trying to use anything that was cleared.

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CumQuaT
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Posted: 14th Aug 2011 02:37
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Not with the complexity of my game thanks for the help. I'm off to write a launcher app!

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Posted: 14th Aug 2011 08:13
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Quote: "Not with the complexity of my game thanks for the help. I'm off to write a launcher app!"


A game,no matter how complex, should have some basic functions for setting up and unloading resources when needed. Even a small project should be a reusable function of some sort just to make everything easier for you. For example, my pong game used 30+ functions. One would create and load the sprites, the others would check for collision and scores. Just work on your habits now and it'll make your programming life a ton easier

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