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Hi !

I have a very simple question, I looked for a long time for an answer, but never found any...

I want to use the mouse wheel in a game to allow to scroll a slider up and down (it allows to scroll a label into a GUI to read the whole text that can't be displayed fully in the GUI).

Which functions can I use for that ?

Many thanks !

EDIT : oh sorry, I finally found out the solution... in the tutorial... It's like when I ask for help, help comes by it's own...

Hi there !

I have noticed something that could be linked to my past problem (see first message of this thread).

I have a script in the on_keypress function :

if (keycode==eKeyCtrlH) Display("Something");

The thing is that when I hit the "delete" key (the arrow pointing to the left on the keyboard, used to remove characters in a text), this function is called (I see the "Something" message).

Any ideas of why ?

Ow, sad...

Because a BMP can't have any transparency attribute, isn't it ?

My goal is to let the player choose an image for a character. For a better experience, it could be nice that this image can show the character without any blank background or something else.

Any idea to avoid that with the actual functions in AGS ?

Hi there !

I found this thread, and I was asking : is there any way to use PNG files with the CreatFromFile function ? I use AGS 3.5

I hope so

Let me know !

Many thanks !

Hi !

Sorry for the delay, I was very busy with other things of life... I didn't take the time to answer.

I finally managed to do that, but it seems my script is a lot heavier than Khris's one, so maybe I'm going to update it.

Thanks for your help, and also, sorry for the late answer !!!

Yes it seems I had to sort a smaller array, I managed to solve it.

By the way, I still have problems to script the sorting of my coordinates through the two arrays :S

Anyone has an idea please ?

(sorry for the multiposts...)

It seems I can't sort an array that has a too great size.

So I'm still looking for a solution, if someone has an idea... Many thanks for helping !

OK, so I tried something by using your algorythm EriOo. But when I launch AGS, and try the function, I have an error :

"Stack Overflow" on lines : "_swap(arr, i, j);" in "partition", then in "int p = _partition(arr, lo, hi)" and "_quicksort(arr, p+1, hi)" in "_quicksort".

What does it mean ?

Hmm, the only thing I want to stock is the coordinates (it will help me to automatically place tokens on the map with dedicated functions, just by naming the "number" of the "zone" where I place "which" token).

I have a struct "Cartes", where I could stock these arrays if needed. But I don't understand how it will help to sort the variables ?

When I say from top-left to down-right, I mean : if the map's top left corner has the (0, 0) coordinates, I want my zones to be sorted from the highest line (y=0) to the lowest, and also from left (x=0) to right (y=0). It means : between z1(0, 50), z2(20, 50) and z3(40, 0) , z3 is the first zone (y=0) and z1 is sorted before z2.

Well I'm not sure to understand what you expect me to do with the struct... could you explain me a bit more please ?

Thanks for the help, anyway !

I had a look to your algorythm. Very good job !

My problem is that I need to sort two arrays at the same time.

It would mean that when you find the lowest y-coordinates, you put it in the 1st place of the new array, while putting also the relative x-coordinate to the 1st place of the other new array.

Thanks ErioO ! I edited my post with more precisions (I was doing it when you answered )

I'm going to have a look to the links also !

Hi !

I come with a new brain problem.

I have "stocked" some coordinates of objects (tokens for my game) into 3 arrays of int :

TypeZoneExp : indicates the type of the zone (it's an int, but I'm using an enum to not be lost with numbers...)
XZoneExp : the x-coordinate of the zone "i"
YZoneExp : the y-coordinate of the zone "i"

where i can be a number like 30 or 40 max, it depends of the map (the size of the arrays is changing according to the needs).

I want to sort the zones' coordinates from the top left to the down-right. So the first line of zones (YZoneExp = 0, for example), then the seconde line etc...

Is there any built-in function to do that ? Or useful functions ?

If not, I imagine using loops and loops, but maybe it can be done easier

EDIT : I just precise the situation :

In a chosen map, I want some tokens to be placed. I stock their coordinates so I can manipulate them later.
For example, five tokens :
t1(0, 100)
t2(0,250)
t3(100,150)
t4(50, 0)
t5(25, 100)

Each coordinate is stocked in an array, so : XZoneExp[0]=0, XZoneExp[1]=0, XZoneExp[2]=100, XZoneExp[3]=50, XZoneExp[4]=25 and YZoneExp[0]=100, YZoneExp[1]=250, YZoneExp[2]=250, YZoneExp[3]=0 and YZoneExp[4]=100;

What I want is to sort the tokens' coordinates from the top-left to the down-right. It would be : t4, t1, t5, t3, t2

And so their values "match" in the two arrays : XZoneExp[0]=50, YZoneExp[0]=0 ; XZoneExp[1]=0, YZoneExp[1]=100 etc...

OK, so it is a nice information

However, I found that for a script, the GetTextWidth was not "exact" (or I misunderstood something) : I wanted to get a label's width to get this label with only one line. And I had to write :

mylabel.Width = GetTextWidth(mylabel.Text, mylabel.Font) + 1;

This "+1" was needed, without it my text was written in two lines.

Engine problem ?

Maybe it is the same problem for Height ?

Hi !

I found other threads about it, but I need to have a confirmation from that year since AGS has been updated. Sorry if I didn't find the answer in an earlier thread, I tried to search, but maybe I didn't see it..?

Well, my question is simple : is there a limit of characters inside a label ? It seems one of my labels is cut just before the end of the text.

Sorry for delay for answering, I got some other people testing this issue, and at the moment I don't know if AGS reacts to a key press when it is ALT TAB, or when someone clicks elsewhere the window mode... I didn't get the issue, another people said it to me. I'm going to inspect it deeper

Hi !

I encounter a problem : when in windowed mode, if I click outside the game (so outside the window of the game), it results in an event I scripted in on_key_press : "if (keycode==eKeyS)".

Normally, if I put the S key, it shows a message at the screen (it is like a cheat code for play-testing). And when I click outside of the screen of the game, this message appears.

An idea ?

Hi ! I discover this thread, and what is this plugin about ? What does it do ? Is it for a better quality of sprites ?

Hi there !

So I started the function for a "scrollable label".

It seems to be working with a button and a dynamic sprite and the DrawStringWrapped() function.

BUT the texts is drowed with like a bad quality. The font is not very polished (don't know if it is the english word for that, but in fact, I can see pixels very easily !).

Is there any possibility to have the DrawStringWrapped() in better quality ?

If not, I will maybe think for another solution.

Many thanks Crimson Wizard ! It works now as intended

In fact, I got engine error when I put this line under the "s.Release()" line. It said something like "DrawingSurface is intended to be used before".

Everything seems to be working now, thanks you !

And I noticed the UnpauseGame() problem, maybe my script is getting Paused twice, but I will see !