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Im new to Dark Basic Pro, I've played around with VB, Amos, C++, Pascal etc. I have a couple of questions, and looking through the manuals and help with the program i could find much information on what i wanted to try do.

1. Does Print and Text only send their output to the screen, can it be redirected to a bitmap for later use? because it seems at the moment i have to reprint the text to the screen every frame even if it rarely updates.

2. If not will i have to make my own print function which uses bitmap containing my font and parse strings and copy and paste the character images from the bitmap to my texture?


What im aiming for is a floating windows effect that will be renderd after the 3d scene is renderd. and have the windows contain my text interface. as only things like fps and poly's displayed will need to be updated every frame they can go straight to the backbuffer for rendering, but static information i dont want to have to redo every frame.

Hope that all makes sense.

Aramus

the screen is a bitmap(bitmap 0) so you can can write text to an off screen bitmap by making a new one a using 'set current bitmap'you can then write to this hidden bitmap with print+text if you wish just remember to set it back to 0 after adding to it so your program will draw to the right bitmap once again.

Ahh, thanks. I can see its gonna take me a while, and a lot of questions to figure out how to do things in this which i have done in other languages. Is a more verbose and helpful help file going to be added in one of the later patches? The one that comes with dbp just seems like a slighltly expaned version of the supplied reference manual.

i doubt they are gonna redo the help files, although a few WIP projects are starting up including a FAQ(compiled by me):
http://redeye.dbpcommunity.com/contents.htm
and also a 'dark basic book' by Guyon:
http://darkrealms.dbpcommunity.com/
neither is finished yet but they may be able to help.

Thanks for your help. checking those out now.