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Hi I am new here and I like Dark Baisic alot and hope to make a new game with it. But for right now I am starting at the bottom and working my way up to make 3d games with dark basic. Right now I am trying to make my own screen switcher and I want to make it more intresting.

1. How do I add a background image?
2. How do I have "loading computer info" uptop when it loads the data?
3How do I put in a input that tells the program to close out?

Thank you.

Hey ajm.

I can help you with questions 1 and 3. I'm pretty new to this myself so I'd better not go dishing out help for question 2 coz it'll probbaly be wrong.

1)make sure you know what image you want as your background, and then put it in the same folder that the game program is in. And make sure that it is saved as BITMAP (.bmp) otherwise it won't load.... when you want to load the picture type

LOAD BITMAP "nameoffile.bmp", 0

you can technically put any number at the end but putting a 0 set's the picture as the background so nothing can go underneath it.

2)by default DarkBASIC programs close when the ESC key is pushed... you could just have an instruction to the user saying "press ESC to exit" and won't have to do anything else... or you could try something a bit more adventurous like you could have an exit button and have IF MOUSECLICK()=1 [give button coordinates] THEN END

hope that puts you in the right direction.

in order to have it saying 'loading info' just use this:


but keep in mind unless you are loading ALOT (and i mean ALOT!!!)

of .bmp files, darkbasic will load them super fast.

If you are loading other files like .avi or .mpeg or something then it might load it a little slower, but in my experience you dont really need to put a loading screen.


Cap'n