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Jallen

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Posted: 23rd Aug 2007 17:06

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Hello, im making a simple first person RPG for something to do.
Im not very used to using dark basic and i was wondering what a good way to have buttons in a menu would be.

basically, i dont need it to change appearance or move when i click it, i basically want a box behind some text that will detect if im clicking it or not.

how would i achieve this?
Thanks.

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Sasuke

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Posted: 23rd Aug 2007 17:45 Edited at: 23rd Aug 2007 17:45

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Go to the bottom of the page and your see a search bar, type "button(s)" and you'll find your answer. Good luck

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DK_

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Posted: 23rd Aug 2007 18:34

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there are a few different ways to achieve this.

1) Make an image of the button and make it a sprite at the location you want. Make another 1x1 image and make that a sprite as well. When the mouse is clicked, position the 1x1 sprite at the mouse location, and check if it is touching the button "sprite collision(1,2)" if it returns a 1 then the button has been clicked.

2) requires no media. Simply write the text to the screen. Then if the mouse has been clicked, check if the mouse is over the text:

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center text screen width()/2, screen height()/2, "CLICK ME"
do

if mouseclick()=1
   if mousex()>286 and mousex()<356 and mousey()>239 and mousey()<256
      cls
      print "BUTTON HAS BEEN CLICKED!"
   else
      text 0, 0, "NO BUTTON CLICKED"
   endif
endif

loop