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Glukom	Posted: Oct 10 2009, 02:14 PM
OFF TO JOIN THE NAVY Group: Members Posts: 4071 Member No.: 2455 Joined: 6-August 06 Status: (0d)	I've been trying to think of a practical way to do this for a while, but I'm completely lost now. Let's say I want to do speech like in Final Fantasy. How do I get text to always be in line with the boxes that appear during speech sections? And how do I make those right? And I have no idea how I'd do menu screens right. Why does it seem that all the simple things in games are the hardest to make :[ Would anyone be willing to help me with this? -------------------- EVERYBODY WHO READS THIS AND DISLIKES THE DIRECTION OF NEW MFGG i feel your pain :[

Miaxis	Posted: Oct 10 2009, 02:23 PM
hagan bromas Group: Members Posts: 1799 Member No.: 2793 Joined: 12-October 06 Status: (0d)	Assuming you know how to draw stuff on the screen, menu screens shouldn't be too hard since they're just drawing different things at different positions. Text boxes will dragon and be a bit harder if you want the text to automatically align with the borders of the textbox or if you want a typewriter-like textbox. The basics of a menu screen is having two variables (or alterable values), I'll name them "frame" and "position". frame indicates which part of the menu we are at (0 for main, 1 for items, 2 for equipment, go on), position indicates where the cursor is pointing at (if he's pointing at the "Items" option, the "Equipment" option, etc). If frame equals 0, we're at the main screen, so the main screen stuff is drawn. If it equals 1, we draw the item screen stuff (of course you'll have to use an ini file or something for the inventory, but I'm just explaining the basics for now). If position equals 0, draw the cursor next to "Items", etc. Then just recieve input from the user, as in alter the position value if one of the arrow keys is pressed, alter the frame value if the user presses the back or the ok/decision button so he ends up on the correct screen. Drawing static textboxes is basically drawing text onto the screen while drawing a textbox as a background. You'll have to mess around with positioning if you don't plan to write a script so the text automatically aligns with the textbox, though. This post has been edited by Miaxis on Oct 10 2009, 02:25 PM --------------------

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for text boxes you could cheat and use text blitter

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QUOTE (Miaxis @ Oct 10 2009, 03:23 PM)

Assuming you know how to draw stuff on the screen, menu screens shouldn't be too hard since they're just drawing different things at different positions. Text boxes will dragon and be a bit harder if you want the text to automatically align with the borders of the textbox or if you want a typewriter-like textbox.

The basics of a menu screen is having two variables (or alterable values), I'll name them "frame" and "position". frame indicates which part of the menu we are at (0 for main, 1 for items, 2 for equipment, go on), position indicates where the cursor is pointing at (if he's pointing at the "Items" option, the "Equipment" option, etc).

If frame equals 0, we're at the main screen, so the main screen stuff is drawn. If it equals 1, we draw the item screen stuff (of course you'll have to use an ini file or something for the inventory, but I'm just explaining the basics for now). If position equals 0, draw the cursor next to "Items", etc. Then just recieve input from the user, as in alter the position value if one of the arrow keys is pressed, alter the frame value if the user presses the back or the ok/decision button so he ends up on the correct screen.

Drawing static textboxes is basically drawing text onto the screen while drawing a textbox as a background. You'll have to mess around with positioning if you don't plan to write a script so the text automatically aligns with the textbox, though.

I'm not really concerned with the technical part of it, like telling what frame of the menu screen or whatever you're on, I'm more concerned with the visual aspect, like the text box itself.

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for text boxes you could cheat and use text blitter

I could see this being useful for text itself, but I still have a problem with the boxes :[

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