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DarkBASIC Discussion / How to make a good-looking main menu.

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Morten Torndahl Pedersen
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Posted: 17th Nov 2002 20:55
How do i make a good-looking main menu for my game?
Kentaree
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Posted: 17th Nov 2002 22:29
Uhm, maybe it would be clearer if you were a little more descriptive, if you have any ideas how you want it to look.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 18th Nov 2002 06:11
well get some nice graphics and use them instead of a bad looking menu

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actarus
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Posted: 18th Nov 2002 15:10
lol

Use a Menu drawn on a bitmap and paste it on-screen...Get the results of mouseclicks and positions and apply the changes accordingly to what you want the clicked section to do.

If you were looking for GUI commands,too bad the language doesn't support those so you'll have to create them.

DarkSith
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Posted: 18th Nov 2002 17:20
How would one accomplish this, I'm interested too.

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MrTAToad
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Posted: 18th Nov 2002 18:56
You would need a set of X,Y,DX,DY coordinates that you would check against the mouse position when a button is pressed, and then decide which selection was, well, selected according to which set of coordinates was found.

Hopefully when the SDK comes out we can get access to the DIRECTSURFACE8 handle - then windows can be drawn properly on the screen without leaving trails behind.

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Kentaree
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Posted: 18th Nov 2002 22:26
I'm actually working on a windowing system in DBv1 now, leaving no trails is easy - use sprites

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MrTAToad
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Posted: 19th Nov 2002 14:44
I was thinking about Windows windows

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actarus
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Posted: 20th Nov 2002 14:38
Yeah and you could get the Fade in/out menu effect also.

Clacker
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Posted: 29th Nov 2002 10:32


This is just some code I found sometime ago. Dont know who made it but anyway it is nothing fancy but you could realy make somthing out of it.

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Posted: 29th Nov 2002 12:03
Look at my homepage (http://TheCyborg.Amok.sk) for a 3D menu outline.

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Zooker
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Posted: 30th Nov 2002 03:21
Thanx Clacker

I downloaded a very nice looking Menu called Windoze. Its great. It has 1 draw back. I hate Mice. Mice are nothing but anorexic RATS. I've got the Carpal Tunnel syndrome to Prove it. Maybe one of you guru's could hack it to use keycomands also. It was written by a fellow named Magellan.
Indi may know how to get in touch with Him.
Mean while I'll try this menu out that Clacker has given us!

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