Font.Draw not drawing text above sprite?

[Tasty Pastry]

I'm making a game in turing, and I have a textbox sprite that im using for my textbox (obviously). However when I use Font.Draw it seems to be drawing it behind the sprite, although the the sprite is at layer 0. How do I fix this?

Turing:

var TextBox : int := PicLoad ("TextBox.bmp") var TextBoxSprite : int := Sprite.New (TextBox) Sprite.SetPosition (TextBoxSprite, 685, 145, true) Sprite.SetHeight (TextBoxSprite, 0) Sprite.Show (TextBoxSprite) fontPositionChoosex := 278 fontPositionChoosey := 185 TypewriterPrintSlow ("....") % A procedure that uses Font.Draw, i'll include it here just in case proc TypewriterPrintSlow (text : string)     for i : 1 .. length (text)             delay (750)             Font.Draw (text (i), fontPositionChoosex + x, fontPositionChoosey, font, colorText)                         x := x + 23     end for     put ""     x := 0 end TypewriterPrintSlow

[Insectoid]

Non-sprites are considered to be at layer 0. A sprite with a negative height will be drawn under non-sprites.

[Tasty Pastry]

Insectoid @ Wed Jun 07, 2017 7:59 pm wrote:

Non-sprites are considered to be at layer 0. A sprite with a negative height will be drawn under non-sprites.

Yes but then the sprite is just drawn behind the background.

I think this may help but the text flashes right before going under the box.

[Insectoid]

Then your only other option is to make your text a sprite so it can have a layer, or stop using sprites entirely.

Sprites only really work well when everything is a sprite. Mixing them with raw text/images is a bad idea.

[Tasty Pastry]

Insectoid @ Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:09 pm wrote:

Then your only other option is to make your text a sprite so it can have a layer, or stop using sprites entirely.

Sprites only really work well when everything is a sprite. Mixing them with raw text/images is a bad idea.

How would I make my text a sprite? Would it work with my typrewiter proc?

[Insectoid]

It's possible, but really messy and slow. You could draw the text, then save it to an image with pic.screensave, then load that image as a sprite.

Or just stop using sprites, which is the solution I recommend and which will teach you much more valuable lessons.