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SO I'm pretty new to programming. I'm taking a class right now that uses DarkGDK with visual C++.

Right now I'm trying to write a mouse over program for an assignment. It should be fairly easy but for some reason I can only get it to partially work.

The program is suppose to display an image and if you mouse over the image, it swaps to a second image. then if you move the mouse away it suppose to swap back.

Well I can only get it to swap from the first image to the second. After that it wont do anything.

I'm required to code up a value returning function, which is the bool mouseOver(). This is what I'm using to determine if the mouse is over the image. If its true, change it, if its false, paste the first image.
i feel like the problem has something to do with this, the mouseOver() fuction is staying true.

Any advice is appreciated!! Thanks!


//Chapter 9 program



#include "DarkGDK.h"

//prototypes
void loadImages();
bool mouseOver();

void DarkGDK(){
loadImages();
dbSyncOn();
dbSyncRate(60);

while(LoopGDK()){
if(mouseOver() == true)
dbSprite(2, 200, 200, 2);
else
dbSprite(1, 200, 200, 1);

dbSync();
}

}
bool mouseOver(){
int mx = dbMouseX();
int my = dbMouseY();

if(mx >= 200 && mx <= 250 && my >= 200 && my <= 270)
return true;
}

void loadImages(){
dbLoadImage("Joker_Black.bmp", 1);
dbLoadImage("Joker_Red.bmp", 2);
}

Hi,

First of all, try to use code tags the next time, it will make your post much more readable

There is no "return false" statement in your "mouseOver()" function at all, so it can never return the appropriate value if the mouse is not over the image! Also a function that returns a value should always have a default return value just in case no other condition is set. So just change your function to this:



Also you should check your "if"-conditions in this function. If your image size is 50 x 70 then your bottom right corner pixel is 249, 269 because the pixels start to count at 0, 0. So you should change your if statement to one of these to be precise:



And additionaly I think you should think about how you handle your sprites. If I remember correctly (haven't worked with DarkGDK in a while) the command "dbSprite()" always creates a new sprite, so just use this once before your loop (creating one sprite, one ID) and just use "dbChangeSprite()" or something similar to change the image that your single sprite uses. This will be more effective and save memory.

Hope this helps! (I typed this up in a hurry so excuse me for any stupid mistakes...)