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Melainon
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Posted: 27th Oct 2003 18:18
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Does anyone know how to make a menu in DarkBASIC Pro? When I say menu, I mean one where you can select a number of options with the mouse, like New Game, Options and such. It completely eludes me how you can make this!
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Posted: 27th Oct 2003 23:20
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you can just position some sprites on the screen to make buttons and position them next to the text, then make the pointer a sprite and if you have hit (for example) sprite 5 and the mouse button is down then someone has clicked on sprite 5 and you change the option or value.
or you can make the buttons out of three-d objects and use a 3d pointer to select them, either with or without a backdrop (use floating text extruded in a modeler)
or use the draw and paste commands to build your screen and then check for the pointer being in selectable regions and the button being clicked
or show a screen made in a graphics editor like paint and overlay the clickable areas with hidden boxes etc, and then check for a click and collision.
or write a subroutine to print text and create a box the correct size at the same time and hide it.
loads of options, hope they give you some idea, cheers.

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Surreal Studio IanG
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Posted: 31st Oct 2003 15:59
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there is a dll that you can download which makes a menu like the one you get in windows programs (ie file, edit, view, et, though you can change them) i think one of the people who works for the TGC makes it, but i cant remember who.

Flick that switch...*BANG*...Not that one!
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John H
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Posted: 1st Nov 2003 01:21
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If your thinking of the BLUE IDE plugin, it doesnt 'make' you a menu, it rather gives you a bunch of commands to help make stuff like that for your game. Check out the program announcements section for the BLUE Plugin for more info.

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the_winch
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Posted: 1st Nov 2003 04:42
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Here is some code that uses metors idea of using sprites for menu items and positioning a 1x1 sprite at the mouse position.

see code button.
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Philip 1337
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2003 12:22
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Rob K has a free menu plugin on his site for "file", "help" etc
its called "tpc_menus_1.4.zip" or something like that


http://gbros.250free.com/3dviewer.html
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