hey, im creating a pong clone

and for my menus im using guichan gui engine

ok so i have a main menu, options button and start game button

i have 2 pointers to container types

Container *top;

and

Container *top2;

and i have three 2 buffers...

the screen bufer, and the bg buffer

BITMAP *buffer;
BITMAP *bg; *A backgroud image of stars for menus*

for guichan i have graphics pointing to the bg bitmap for drawing widgets

so in the options menu, i have gui->setTop(top); then the while loop, insdie while loop is the code like the menu and buttons

anyway at the end of the while loop i have

gui->draw();


masked_blit(buffer2,bg,0,0,0,0,800,600);
blit(bg,buffer,0,0,0,0,800,600);
blit(buffer,screen,0,0,0,0,800,600);

and i have a button in this options menu, called back to main, in which if its pressed i return a value for the choice engine, which returns back to main menu

and for the start button code, when user presss start button

i do everything accordingly

so i

gui->setTop(top2);

before i go into while loop

which is the code for some more choices

at the end of this loop i have

 gui->draw();


    masked_blit(buffer2,bg,0,0,0,0,800,600);
    blit(bg,buffer,0,0,0,0,800,600);
    blit(buffer,screen,0,0,0,0,800,600);

now if i go to options menu then click back to main then click start game the widgets from options menu is still showing

i tried putting clear_bitmap(buffer2) before gui->setTop(top2); but theres probs with that

how am i suposed to handle doing diferent widgets for different menus

i need to clear bg so the widgets wont show anymore, but it really doesn't work that well

pls help...if you want me to post my code i can, just ask me

but i kinda wanna do it myself, just wanted to know what the heck was wrong

In that case, you should go with that and solve those other problems instead.

What's likely going on is that buffer2 is retaining everything you've drawn to it, so when you leave the options menu, everything that was drawn by it remains.

.Any solution you come up with will require you to redraw certain things that would've been erased either by the elements drawn by the options menu, or erased calling clear_bitmap() on buffer2.

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