Menu Drawing is Tweaking Out! MEDIC!!

Menu Drawing is Tweaking Out! MEDIC!!

xmltorrent

Member #7,673

August 2006

I'm writing a bit of code to handle drawing windows in a menu system for a RPG. So far everything works but I'm having a slight problem.

I can draw two windows no problem. When I go to draw the third window, the background of the window overflows off the bottom of the screen and for the life of me, I can' figure out why the heck it's doing that. I'm not sure if it's in the function I'm using to draw the window or not.

Here's the function:

1void drawMenuRect(BITMAP *target, int x1, int y1, int x2, int y2){
  //variable declarations
  int borderCounter = 1;
  int innerCounter = 6;
  int red = 205;
  int green = 205;
  int blue = 205;
8 
  //acquire the bitmap to draw on to optimize speed
  acquire_bitmap(target);
11 
  //draw the outer border rectangle to start with
  rect(target, x1, y1, x2, y2, makecol(255, 255, 255));
14 
  //finish the border
  while(borderCounter < 6){
      //draw a rectangle with the current values
      rect(target, x1 + borderCounter, y1 + borderCounter, x2 - borderCounter, y2 - borderCounter, makecol(red, green, blue));
19 
      //increment borderCounter;
      borderCounter++;
22 
      //decrease the col color values (3D effect)
      red -= 25;
      green -= 25;
      blue -= 25;
  }
28 
  //reset the color values to draw the inside of the window
  red = 0;
  green = 0;
  blue = 255;
33 
  //draw the color for the windows
  while(innerCounter <= y2 - 15){
      //draw a line of color
      line(target, x1 + 6, y1 + innerCounter, x2 - 6, y1 + innerCounter, makecol(red, green, blue));
38 
      //increment innerCounter
      innerCounter++;
41 
      //decrement the value of blue
      blue -= 1;
44 
      //make sure that if blue reaches zero, make sure it stays zero
      if(blue <= 0)
          blue = 0;
  }
49 
  //release the bitmap
  release_bitmap(target);
52}END_OF_FUNCTION(drawMenuRect);

Thanks in advance for any help.

Kris Asick

Member #1,424

July 2001

You should post the code that calls your drawing routine and a screenshot of the windows being drawn. "background of the window overflows off the bottom of the screen" could mean a lot of different things.

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