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GZMGames Admin
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Posted: 28th Mar 2005 11:36
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full screen im pretty sure is 800x600 right, so what would be right in the middle of it? it's somewhere between 300 and 200 the reason im trying to figure this out is becuase i need the words in the print function right smack in the middle.

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Underworld 1020
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Posted: 28th Mar 2005 12:00 Edited at: 28th Mar 2005 12:02
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Well, it doesn't matter what resolution you run your program in, what matters is if the windowed mode is on or not. If you were to put this command "Set Window On" in your code the program would run in windowed mode. If you don't use that command then your program will automatically run in fullscreen mode regardless of the resolution.

But what I think your asking is how do you print text right in the middle of the screen, right? Thats what the "Center Text" command does.

This from the help files:


Let me know if that helps or not .



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Oneka
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Posted: 28th Mar 2005 12:04
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I did have a little method I did for this that I didnt you center text because I had to do other things but its like this
(resx/2) - textlength (resy/2) - textlength
and If I remeber correctly it was like that..

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Posted: 28th Mar 2005 12:50
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This is all you need...



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Posted: 28th Mar 2005 13:51
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ok but what about the set cursor im trying to get my text like this


set cursor ---,---
print "whatever i want in here"
sleep 2000
cls

on these little marks (---) are the things im trying to get centered and the screen is in full screen but im sure those things above will work just as fine. but im not ganna do it right now cuz im TIRED!

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Posted: 28th Mar 2005 14:40
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If you want your text in the center then use what Dark Flame posted. The set cursor command will set the spot where the next print statement will put the text. If you put the cursor in the middle the left of the text would begin at that spot. So instead of it being in the center it would start at center and go to the right.

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Posted: 28th Mar 2005 23:18 Edited at: 28th Mar 2005 23:27
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Quote: "on these little marks (---) are the things im trying to get centered and the screen is in full screen "


Well just half your resoltution for example...

800x600 half of that would be 400x300 so that would be the centre

so



But if you have long text then you may have to adjust the 1st
co-ordinate.

Hope this helped!

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Posted: 29th Mar 2005 10:59
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no that didnt work ill try what you said the first time

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