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anon

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Posted: 8th May 2012 19:05

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Hi does anyone know how to marquee text in DBP, I just upgraded from DBC and it was working perfectly. With all the problems DBC has (you can read all my previous posts) I would've hoped if it at least worked on DBC it would work on DBP. Any examples would be appreciated.

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Sergey K

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Posted: 8th May 2012 21:19

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lots of ways!

1)

SET TEXT FONT : SET TEXT FONT Fontname
SET TEXT SIZE : SET TEXT SIZE Point size
SET TEXT OPAQUE : SET TEXT OPAQUE
SET TEXT TRANSPARENT : SET TEXT TRANSPARENT
SET TEXT TO NORMAL : SET TEXT TO NORMAL
SET TEXT TO ITALIC : SET TEXT TO ITALIC
SET TEXT TO BOLD : SET TEXT TO BOLD
SET TEXT TO BOLDITALIC : SET TEXT TO BOLDITALIC

all of those commands can be used to marquee your text. just set different font size or make it BOLD from the other texts..

2) use box command to make behind-text box.

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msg as string
color as integer
msg = "hello world"
color = rgb(200,0,0)

do
	cls
	box mousex()-1,mousey()-1,mousex()+text width(msg)+1,mousey()+text height(msg)+1,color,color,color,color
	text mousex(),mousey(),msg
loop

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Chris Tate

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Posted: 8th May 2012 22:43

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Ignore this post if you are NOT talking about scrolling marquee text?

Anon, if you want to scroll text, for example from left to right; you adjust the X position of the text over time. If you want to scroll the text character by character, you do the same but loop through each character to be drawn one by one, moving them over time. If you want to go further and draw each light bulb of each character, you need to work with sprites, images, 3d objects or individual pixels.

It is down to which effect you want.

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