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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Newbie : HOW to display text over sprites?

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JARS
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I know, its a newbie question. How do you display text over sprites in 2d graphics mode? Stupidly, I've been struggling with this issue for months and even thought about making my own font (etc) but I figured if there is a way to make it, it would be much more simple.
Because print and text (x,y) don't seem to work, I assume I must craft my own function?

Thanks reading.

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RUCCUS
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CENTER TEXT SPRITE X(Sprite Num),SPRITE Y(Sprite Num)-(SPRITE HEIGHT(Sprite Num)/2),"String"

That wont work for you?


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UFO
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Quote: "CENTER TEXT SPRITE X(Sprite Num),SPRITE Y(Sprite Num)-(SPRITE HEIGHT(Sprite Num)/2),"String""

Yea, that is what I was thinking.[
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JARS
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what this command does is simply use :
TEXT (x,y) "string"
where you put the argument X to be equal to the X location of the sprite and Y to the Y location of the same selected sprite (without the sprite height to make it centered). That's a lot more than I needed. The problem isn't finding the sprite, the problem is simply to DISPLAY TEXT over any sprite at all. Maybe my version's files got corrupted, but I never got the chance to succeed with this.

Whenever I put a text (x,y) "text" and there are sprites displayed, I just won't see any text at all, it is like it is transparent. I tried negociating with font sizes but nothing did it...

Hope this clarifies my question?

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TDK
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If the text doesn't change, before you use the image to create the sprite, paste it onto Bitmap 1 (hidden), then put the text on the image before you re-grab it to make the sprite with.

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JARS
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Can you be more precise about this procedure please?
I'm getting the overall idea but a concrete example could help...

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DrWez
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I had this problem and searching the forums found this code by Ric


To use just type text_over_sprite(SpriteNumber,Xpos, Ypos,Text)
The Spritenumber is any number that you are not using in your code
Xpos and Ypos are the coordinate like text x,y
Text is a string with your text in
I had to use bitmap 31 as DBC wont let me go any higher,the original uses 100 (i think)
If your are using DBPro I think you have to set the sprite priority at the end of the function to make it appear at the front

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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 14th Oct 2005 22:57
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This is primitive but it's exactly what TDK is talking about (just threw it together).

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