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I want to make a chat window for my game. Ill have a space for it in a particular spot at the bottom of the screen. With a single line spot under that for what you type before it goes into the chat window.
Im just not sure how to update the chat window when the messages are updated and moves everything up to make room for the new message. Is there a way to make a window that keeps everything inside it?

my answer to this in previous projects was to dim an array and use it for storing incomming messages from other players. You can then draw the text using a for loop something like:



x_position can = the left most pixel of your chat box, then y_position can equal something like (presuming y_top equals the top pixel of your box): y_position = y_top + (N * 15) - that should space the lines of text out every 15 pixels unless i just did something stupid

This way, when a new message comes in, you can (if the array is full) delete the message at the bottom of the array, move all the messages down and insert the new one at the top, then it will automatically scroll. Hope that helps