Drawing and erasing text in sequence?

[Jason]

Another problem now!

I can display text both through the draw text drag and drop, and through using a script,

However, what I can't for the love of me find out, is how to erase text...

I've tried putting the text into a string, and deleting the string before showing a new string of text, but that just has no effect whatsoever...

And now I'm pretty much out of ideas after trying for two hours...

Any help?... again.

 

[bacon]

Make an alarm event. Since there is no wait command, set how long you want your alarm to count before setting off. Then in a new event, the event that happens when alarm xx goes off, put what you want to happen.

 

[Jason]

I don't get it, it says "steps", now, I don't know how that works, I assume it means after you've walked that far? I seriously have no idea and feel like a twat, lol...

I set it to 5, and waited, and nothing happened...

Care to explain a little more? I can't do anything with 'em! D:

 

[bacon]

Okay, set up everything. Include the fireworks and whatever.

Then make an alarm action that sets alarm 1 to go off.
Steps are time measurements. If you look in a rooms properties you can change and look at how many steps a room functions per second. I think the default is 30. That means in order for 5 seconds to occur, you need to wait 150 steps.

Then make a new alarm event, not an action, an event. Make it so that when alarm 1 goes off, then object whatever will move to the next room.

 

[Jason]

Wow it worked, and it was pretty simple... thanks for the help :thumb:

 

[bacon]

No problem :D
Just post some Q's if you have any. :D

 

[Jason]

Yo bacon, got another problem if you fancy helping again? :biggrin:

 

[bacon]

have you tried doing the same thing with the timers and all that? See if it works for text as well. Also are you splashing text or displaying it. o:

 

[Jason]

Well apparently, according to some guys on the GM forums, you can't delete text once you've drawn it, unless you refresh the screen, so I did that, and nothing happened. I've also tried using timers, and that doesn't work either D:

This is REALLY getting on my nerves now D:

 

[bacon]

can you post a picture of your event and/or script o:?

 

[Jason]

It's pretty much just a draw event, where I've set the font/size/colour, and then the script:

<div class="gml" id="{CB}" style="font-family: monospace;"><ol> 

[url=http://www.zonamakers.com/gmlreference/draw_text.html]<span style="color: navy;">draw_text[/url]

    (<span style="color: #cc66cc;">20, <span style="color: #cc66cc;">20, "This is an important message!#Press any key to read it.")

    

[url=http://www.zonamakers.com/gmlreference/keyboard_wait.html]<span style="color: navy;">keyboard_wait[/url]();

 

[url=http://www.zonamakers.com/gmlreference/screen_refresh.html]<span style="color: navy;">screen_refresh[/url]();

 

[url=http://www.zonamakers.com/gmlreference/draw_text.html]<span style="color: navy;">draw_text[/url]

    (<span style="color: #cc66cc;">20, <span style="color: #cc66cc;">20, "Hmm.... <span style="color: #202020;">did it work?")

 

Nothing much, since I'm just using it as a test for the moment...

 

[bacon]

I tried working with this one, but I really have no clue. I have never tried to change text like that before. Its weird that it doesnt update however. I would continue to try with the GM forums personally, you'll get better luck there. I apologize that I cannot help you. D:

 

[Jason]

So I asked on the GM forums, and it turns out I was sort of on the right track, although I needed to add a variable, and make it so everytime I draw_text and press a key to make it go to the next, I increase the variable by 1 etc.

So like, if variable bacon was 1, it'd say "Hi, I'm bacon!"
And then you press any key to continue
variable bacon changes to 2, and then I have an if statement, if bacon was 2, say "No... no I'm not..."

And so on like that.