Need help adding feature to text script.

[dario8676]

Hey guys Dargor made me this awesome script a few days ago, and i was wondering if someone could help me update it as he's already helped me with so much and i don't want to bother him again. Basically what the script does it allows me to display text anywhere on the screen with a call script given (x coord, y coord,length,width,the text, clear_bitmap). Happy to say thx to Dargor it works beautifully and looks really colorful on the screen. The only issue i have is this. The only way of erasing text from the screen is by setting clear_bitmap= true, and that erases All the text from the screen. How would i modify this script so that if i want to change the text on the screen, i don't have to constantly redisplay everything as it can cause a tremendous amount of lag.

Example: Using this script i display Hero: John, HP: 50/50, MP:40/40 on the top left of the screen. On the bottom left of the screen im displaying Gold:50. Okay, then i have an event somewhere on my map that changes the Variable:Gold im displaying from 50 to 80. So now i have to clear_bitmap, and redisplay all the text on the top left of the screen (Hero:John, HP:50/50,MP:40/40), and also redisplay Gold, so that it now says Gold:80.

How would i set up an updated method of clear_bitmap in this script so that i can somehow tell it to only erase gold:50 from the screen and display gold:80, without having to worry about all the other text.

Thanks a bunch all, here is Dargor's current script he made for me. It's really short!

Spoiler

class Scene_Map
  alias dargor_req_draw_text_map_main main
  alias dargor_req_draw_text_map_update update
  attr_accessor    :text_sprite
  attr_accessor    :shadowed_text
  def main
    text_viewport = Viewport.new(0,0,640,480)
    text_viewport.z = 9000
    @text_sprite = RPG::Sprite.new(text_viewport)
    @text_sprite.bitmap = Bitmap.new(640,480)
    dargor_req_draw_text_map_main
    @text_sprite.dispose
  end
  def update
    dargor_req_draw_text_map_update
    @text_sprite.update
  end
  def draw_text(x,y,width,height,text,align=0,clear_bitmap=true)
    @text_sprite.bitmap.clear if clear_bitmap
    @text_sprite.bitmap.draw_text(x,y,width,height,text,align)
  end
end

 

[Brewmeister]

Let's just clear that portion of the bitmap where you're drawing the new text...

class Scene_Map
  alias dargor_req_draw_text_map_main main
  alias dargor_req_draw_text_map_update update
  attr_accessor :text_sprite
  def main
    text_viewport = Viewport.new(0,0,640,480)
    text_viewport.z = 9000
    @text_sprite = RPG::Sprite.new(text_viewport)
    @text_sprite.bitmap = Bitmap.new(640,480)
    dargor_req_draw_text_map_main
    @text_sprite.dispose
  end
  def update
    dargor_req_draw_text_map_update
    @text_sprite.update
  end
  def draw_text(x,y,width,height,text,align=0,clear_bitmap=true)
    if clear_bitmap
      @text_sprite.bitmap.clear 
    else
      # clear just this section of the bitmap
      @text_sprite.bitmap.fill_rect(x,y,width,height,Color.new(0,0,0,0))
    end
    @text_sprite.bitmap.draw_text(x,y,width,height,text,align)
  end
end

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Ref: Junk123