Well, I tend to stick to a grid, like have the text size the same on each line. This little piece of code would make a quick and simple menu (with hyperlink style highlighting) - although not great coding practice, it shows the technique. For more complex menus with different options, you'd be better making a neater system, perhaps store the menu data in an array, I've used arrays to store drop down lists and menus before, and for GUI intensive stuff it's a god send.
cls
sync on
do
mx=mousex()
my=mousey()
sel=0
ink rgb(255,255,255),0
if mx>100 and mx<400 and my>100 and my<119 then sel=1 : ink rgb(255,0,0),0 else ink rgb(255,255,255),0
text 100,100,"New Game"
if mx>100 and mx<400 and my>120 and my<139 then sel=2 : ink rgb(255,0,0),0 else ink rgb(255,255,255),0
text 100,120,"Options"
if mx>100 and mx<400 and my>140 and my<159 then sel=3 : ink rgb(255,0,0),0 else ink rgb(255,255,255),0
text 100,140,"Continue Game"
if mx>100 and mx<400 and my>160 and my<179 then sel=4 : ink rgb(255,0,0),0 else ink rgb(255,255,255),0
text 100,160,"Quit"
if mouseclick()=1 and sel>0
if sel=1 then gosub newgame
`etc, add a line for each sel value
endif
sync
loop
Hope none of this get's smiliefied, Code tag isn't working
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Van-B
