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When I initially call dbSpriteScaleX, the function returns the sprite width, rather than the scale. After setting the scale to 100 with dbScaleSprite, the function does return the actual scale (100). Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

See for instance the code below:


at first, the width of the sprite is shown (128). But after pressing the left key, the scale is set to 100 and the actual scale (100) is returned correctly.

Thanks in advance for your help!

It's a bug. When you create an animated sprite, it calls a function which sizes the sprite in pixels, and that function sets the scale value badly. (I've just checked the Dark GDK source code.) The same error happens when you use dbSizeSprite.

You can write a bug report about it. I will confirm it (or I'll make the report later if you don't).

It seems you have already found a workaround by setting the initial scale to 100 after creating the sprite.

An advice: do not use dbStr like this because you will create a memory leak. With Dark GDK functions that return char* you should either delete[] the returned string, or - better - don't use them when you can avoid it. Whenever you want to print something to the screen, it's easy to use sprintf and more convenient too, since you can format the printed string.

Thanks for the confirmation. I guess the workaround will do for now.

As for the dbStr function, I'm aware of the the memory leak. I'm only using dbStr like this for debugging purposes...