Computer Science Canada

Making Credits

Author:  BigBear [ Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Making Credits

I am wondering if someone can help me get started making credits. I was thinking makeing text move by changing the variable y then when y = maxy then y:=o and draw another group of words that move by the variable y. Any Ideas

Author:  HeavenAgain [ Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:03 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:Making Credits

draw them all on the screen where you can see them first, then add like 1000 to y cord, and now do a for-loop minus the y cord, and voola Very Happy simple and stupid

Author:  syntax_error [ Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Making Credits

even better a cheap trick write out your credits on paint or something make it fancy as you want save it as a jpeg
then jsut move the picture up nad down the screen soo much less coding
and i think would look better?

Author:  ericfourfour [ Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Making Credits

The best way would be to make a procedure that takes one line, as a string and scrolls it all the way down the screen. It will make programming your credits much easier.

The procedure would look sort-of like this:
Turing:
proc scroll (line : string)
    % Scroll line string down the screen.
end scroll


Then all you would have to do is a series of calls for your credits:
Turing:
scroll ("Programmer - BigBear")
scroll ("some other task - person's name")


You will also have to find where to place the text so it is centre. Just some basic math (mean/average).

If you make it that simple, you can easily implement loading the credits from a file as well.

Author:  BigBear [ Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Making Credits

They were all great suggestions almost as if you guys had done it before. Wink

I ended up just making it in paint but had to make multiple txt boxes then changed to to white writing and had to either change each pixel white. so I ended up doing some simple code in turing to Font.Draw my text then took a screen shot and pasted in into another paint cut the text out and pasted it into my credits bitmap.
Turing:

setscreen ("graphics:max;max")
%var font : int := Font.New ("Arial:35:Bold") % Bold for Titles
var font : int := Font.New ("Arial:35:italic") %italic for Names lol
drawfillbox (0, 0, maxx, maxy, black)
Font.Draw ("Cody Scott", maxx div 2, maxy div 2, font, white)

I wondering why my teacher wanted credits. This is not my Ego. lol

Anyways here is my finished product thanks alot.

Author:  octopi [ Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Making Credits

I think you mean Mozilla, not Moxilla


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