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How can i do this?
Joined: 23 Oct 2002
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How can i do this?
Hi,
Please help me with this problem.
Let`s say we have a D3D or DDraw game running in full screen, for
example Unreal Tournament, Starcraft etc..
I want to display a small textbox in the corner of the screen from my
application.
How can i do this? Any ideas are welcomed, in any programming languages.
Thank you,
Silviu
Joined: 18 Jun 2001
Posts: 8
How can i do this?
Hi,
There are a few ways you can do this:
1) have you tried simply using a `normal` dialogue box ? in some
situations this will work - it just might look a little strange if
windows is set to one resolution and your game is in another.
Normal delphi controls can be drawn on a directdraw surface.
2) most games have their own visual controls which are rendered onto
the scene.
On a 3D scene, draw onto a surface and render it facing the camera,
as in the billboards example
On a 2D scene, maintain a list of objects to be drawn and draw your
textbox last.
Jason
--- In delphigamesprogramming@y..., "Silviu Bardasu"
<silviu.bardasu@u...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Please help me with this problem.
> Let`s say we have a D3D or DDraw game running in full screen, for
> example Unreal Tournament, Starcraft etc..
> I want to display a small textbox in the corner of the screen from
my
> application.
> How can i do this? Any ideas are welcomed, in any programming
languages.
>
> Thank you,
> Silviu
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