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Newcomers DBPro Corner / help with text over sprites

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Troglodyte
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Posted: 28th Jun 2005 16:46
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Maybe I'm just stupid (partially because I've had DBPro for, 17 hours) but, I need a way to display text over sprites without using other sprites if thats possible. I've looked over the tutorials and a few other things but all they show is how to print to the screen without sprites. Thanks for your time.
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Oliver
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Posted: 28th Jun 2005 23:46
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I don't think theres a simple way of doing this. Though one way would be to create an image from the text then paste it as a sprite.

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Troglodyte
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Posted: 29th Jun 2005 03:09
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I was afraid of this. I thought maybe I could load a bitmap off screen, set it to print on that, then make the sprite with the text already on it...but that either doesn't work or I did something wrong. Another way that I might try is make an image with all the letters and symbols that I'll use and have an array that has coodinates to the area of the bitmap that contains the letter, then just make the words out of aligned sprites, but that might take a while and possibly not work. I just need some way to make a message window.
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BN2 Productions
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Posted: 1st Jul 2005 10:41
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There is a better way to do this.
Once you display the image add this line of code

syntax might be slightly different for DBPro.
then you use the TEXT command to position your text on the screen.
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RUCCUS
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Posted: 5th Jul 2005 07:35 Edited at: 5th Jul 2005 07:36
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Maybe Im not understanding what youre trying to get at but wouldnt this do it?




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