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D olive
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 17:10
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I just got DB, whenever i get into runtime, my screen flashes, with two white squares in the middle. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 17:17
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Where you set the display mode at the start of your program, use:



and that should fix the problem.

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D olive
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Thankyou, thats has helped. Will i have to do that everytime, or just this once?
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Posted: 29th Jan 2007 13:52 Edited at: 29th Jan 2007 13:58
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You need to do that at the start of every DB Classic program. It's only really for XP users because as far as I'm aware the problem doesn't exist with other versions of Windows.

It was supposed to have been fixed in later updates of DBC (which are you using by the way?), but it was reported that the fix didn't work on all machines.

Adding the lines I showed you does though.

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G'day

I've tried the code that you did, I always get flashing screen when start up my game. it always been like that.

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Quote: "I always get flashing screen when start up my game"


You shouldn't do.

Make sure that the lines of code I supplied in my first post go into your program as the very first lines your program execute - before anything else.

If that doesn't work, try adding a Sync as follows:



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What is the "cls 0" for?
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0 is the same as rgb(0,0,0).

So black.

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... and it's quicker!

Admittedly not a lot quicker, but anything to make DBC a little faster is an advantage!

Every time you use the RGB() function, DB has to do a calculation.

Black is 0,0,0 for the red, green and blue so the calculation is with all zeros and resulting in zero - making it a pointless one.

Saying CLS 0 or Ink 0,0 instead of using the RGB() function is therefore faster.

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that is the best peice of advice ive got-)
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