Setting backcolor of surface, also some other questi0ns

I have a sprite that plays when my form runs, in windowed mode, I do not want the form to be resizable but how would I make the picture box dimensions the same as the sprite (Lets say I dunno the sprites deminesions, I want the user to select one)

How would I set a surface to be a solid color, instead of loading a 1 colored bitmap on to it?

What exactly do "DDSD_CAPS Or DDSD_HEIGHT Or DDSD_WIDTH" do?

How would I show the FPS on the users screen? using dx.DrawText()

make the form/picbox = the dimensions oF the sprite

VB Code:

piCBox.Height = ddsdSprite.lHeight
piCBox.Width = ddsdSprite.lWidth

I suppose Sonikku is right, but remember that you also need to compensate for borders and scalemodes.

Use the [surface].BltColorFill command.

DDSD_CAPS, _WIDTH, and _HEIGHT specify what properties will affect the created surface. Width and Height mean to explicitly declare the width and height (in lWidth and lHeight), and _CAPS makes it look in lCaps.ddsCaps (It's been so long since I've done DDRAW, I forget).

Every frame, take the time between now and the last drawn frame... 1000 divided by this is your framerate. You may want to average these values out over a course of a second, so the user can actually read the framerate. Then you can use the DrawText command. The last value should be FALSE so that a border is not drawn around the text, but if you want one by all means use it, this is just a warning :)

ooPs, I had that, It was giving the right height but I forgot that it was 1 big bitmap, haha it was like 3 times the width it was supposed to be, so I need to set the width manually :E

I got it, iLL divide the width by the # of frames ~



In this code, What is the GoGo for? when the timer gets to that code, the same thing will happen whether GoGo is true or false, If it set to true at the end of the Init command.

VB Code:

If GoGo = True Then                          'If GoGo is true, then
            CurFrame = CurFrame + 1                 'Add 1 to current frame
                If CurFrame > UBound(fRame) Then    'If Current frame exceeds the animation frames then reset back to 0 and set to false to start playing again
                    CurFrame = 0
                    GoGo = False
                End If
        Else
                CurFrame = CurFrame - 1                'If its false then minus 1 from CurFrames
                If CurFrame < LBound(fRame) Then       'If the curentFrant # gets lower than ani frames, then reset to 0 and set to true to start going again
                    CurFrame = 0
                    GoGo = True
                End If
        End If