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DarkBASIC Discussion / Help with PRINT command in 2D

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sgalland
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Hello, and thanks to all of you that helped me complete the basics of my ping pong game. I now have a functional game, just have to put the final elements into it. My question this time is how in the world do you get text to appear on screen, I use the PRINT command and I see nothing. Also how do you change the text color? I used the ink command and it crashed the game (after I retrieved the value from RGB function). So I am kind of lost on that.

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dark coder
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Posted: 24th Nov 2002 11:33
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you have to set the cursor or the text will just fly down the screen put this

set cursor 0,0
print "level 1"

to change the ink

ink rgb(255,0,0),1

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Bitmap
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Posted: 24th Nov 2002 12:22
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I suggest you use TEXT instead of PRINT. it's far better (and you can change the font too if using TEXT)

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sgalland
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Posted: 24th Nov 2002 17:01
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Whenever I use any text output commands they do not show on screen at all, I am wondering why I dont see text what so ever...
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actarus
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Are there any other members than the RGT ones in here? lol

-I am wondering why I dont see text what so ever...

That's because you don't paste it in the Do-loop and you probably cleared the screen(cls) after it...

I agree Print commands sux because of set cursor.

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sgalland
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Here is my do-loop, I still don't see why it wont work:

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sgalland
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I was doing some testing and the problem seems to occur only when I load sprites to the screen, it wont let text appear at all, even when the area with the text is not occupied. But if I remove all sprites from the program and run it text works fine. Any recommendations for bypassing this problem?
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actarus
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Check out the draw to front/back commands...I'm not a '2Der' sorry.

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sgalland, are you using DBP?

anyway, I added a sprite to your code and removed the subroutines... it works ok



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John H
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Yes, bits right. You must make the text a sprite to make it appear on a screen. Since sprites refresh every time the screen refreshs, the text value will always be shown. I posted somewhere on here how to make text a sprite, since I have to use it with my 3d RPG battle system.
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John H
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Heres that snippet:



Hope that helps ya- if your using numbers, just say so and Ill post up my number sprite maker, using arrays.

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sgalland
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I wish I had DB Pro, I am about to program my own library of functions to overcome DB 1.13 problems and make it compatible with DB Pro lol. In my dreams maybe....
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TheCyborg
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Why does you guys always use commands like:
ink 999999999999999999999999,255

Anyways there are only 16776705 colors in 32bit...
Everytime you input a color higher than that number, it will just start over. Writing 16776707 will be the exact same thing as writing 2.

BTW... I just use the RGB(r,g,b) command to get a little more accuracy.

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