Flickering Images

[Jessica359]

Hey,
I am making instructions for my game and i have an image in it but its flickering, i tried View.Update but it doesn't work.
what can i do

code:

% Introduction Screen setscreen ("offscreenonly:700;650") setscreen ("graphics:700;650") var font1, font2 : int font1 := Font.New ("Castellar:100") font2 := Font.New ("Comic Sans MS:18:bold") Draw.Fill (50,50,7,7) loop Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 110) Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 10) Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 120) Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 10) Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 130) Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 10) Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 140) colorback (black) color (0) locatexy (250,500) put "Welcome to the game of FROGGER" Font.Draw ("***Rules***", 50, 400, font2, 10) locatexy (20,350) put "1. This is a 1 Player Game." locatexy (20,300) put "2. You have 3 lives." locatexy (20,250) put "3. Get to the water without getting hit by the cars." locatexy (20,200) put "4. Use the arrown keys to move around." locatexy (20,130) put "Pretty simple right? GOOD LUCK!" Pic.ScreenLoad ("frog.gif", 300, 200, picMerge) Pic.ScreenLoad ("frog.gif", 300, -50, picMerge)  View.Update     Time.Delay (5) end loop

[Tony]

Quote:

setscreen ("offscreenonly:700;650")
setscreen ("graphics:700;650")

Well there's your problem.

[Jessica359]

Alright so i fixed it but now my title isn't trippy no more.

code:

% Introduction Screen   setscreen ("graphics:700;650") var font1, font2 : int font1 := Font.New ("Castellar:100") font2 := Font.New ("Comic Sans MS:18:bold") Draw.Fill (50,50,7,7) loop Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 110) Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 10) Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 120) Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 10) Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 130) Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 10) Font.Draw ("FROGGER", 10, 550, font1, 140) colorback (black) color (0) locatexy (250,500) put "Welcome to the game of FROGGER" Font.Draw ("***Rules***", 50, 400, font2, 10) locatexy (20,350) put "1. This is a 1 Player Game." locatexy (20,300) put "2. You have 3 lives." locatexy (20,250) put "3. Get to the water without getting hit by the cars." locatexy (20,200) put "4. Use the arrown keys to move around." locatexy (20,130) put "Pretty simple right? GOOD LUCK!" View.Set ("offscreenonly") Pic.ScreenLoad ("frog.gif", 300, 200, picMerge) Pic.ScreenLoad ("frog.gif", 300, -50, picMerge)  View.Update end loop

[Nick]

what Tony weant was, why do you have numbers after the offscreen only? also you can combine them like so

setscreen("nobuttonbar,graphics:500;300")

[I Smell Death]

the order doesn't matter as long as things that are suposed to be toghether stay together, so

setscreen("nobuttonbar,graphics:500;300")

is the same as saying

setscreen("graphics:500;300,nobuttonbar")

[jinjin]

Quote:

Alright so i fixed it but now my title isn't trippy no more.

If you only want a specific area for your screen to be updated (i.e. part other than the space the title occupies), you could always use the View.UpdateArea function. More here:
http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=12533
(Credits to Clayton for the tutorial)

[Tallguy]

i guess it all depends wat u want ur title to do, flash colors, then re'write the tiitle over in a different color and loop it, its not that hard