VB: DX: drawing text...

[nareth]

whao i was just adding text. some B's to my tiles to tell its blocked. guess what... it slowed down like hell
has anyone noticed this to?

this is my code:

Do Until L > LayerMax
        If Not Layers.cLayer(L).Value = vbUnchecked Then
            Let xTemp = xZ
            Let yTemp = yZ
            
            Let X = 0
            Do Until X > Map.Width
                Let xDest = xTemp
                Let yDest = yTemp
                
                Let Y = 0
                Do Until Y > Map.Height
                    If Map.TileX(L, X, Y) > -1 And Map.TileY(L, X, Y) > -1 Then
                        Let rTile.Left = Map.TileX(L, X, Y) * TileWidth
                        Let rTile.Top = Map.TileY(L, X, Y) * TileHeight
                        Let rTile.Right = rTile.Left + TileWidth
                        Let rTile.Bottom = rTile.Top + TileHeight
                        
                        Call BufferSurface.BltFast(xDest, yDest, GroundTiles, rTile, DDBLTFAST_DONOTWAIT Or DDBLTFAST_SRCCOLORKEY)
                    End If
                    
                    If Map.Blocked(L, X, Y) Then
                        [COLOR=Blue][B]Call BufferSurface.DrawText(xDest + TileHalfWidth, yDest, "B", False)[/B][/COLOR]
                    End If
                    
                    Let xDest = xDest - TileHalfWidth
                    Let yDest = yDest + TileHalfHeight
                    
                    Let Y = Y + 1
                Loop
                
                Let xTemp = xTemp + TileHalfWidth
                Let yTemp = yTemp + TileHalfHeight
                
                Let X = X + 1
            Loop
        End If
        
        Let L = L + 1
    Loop

[nareth]

is there a faster way to draw text?

[nareth]

nvm i will do it difrent.. when you hover a tile i will make it so it shows in the sbar if its blocked or not...

[Electroman]

Incase it still helps a faster way would be to have an image with the alphabet on and then you change the SrcRect to choose dirrefent letters. This would be quicker I guess cos its missing out the font stuff and basically just rendering a graphic .

[nareth]

i dint set the font... is that why its so slow?

[Electroman]

If you don't set the font then it would just use the default one but I would think its the process of it needing to use the font to work out what the text looks like first and then it still has to draw the thing after that. So if you've already made a FontList Image then your just drawing simple graphics and it dkips out that stage and instead it just takes a little of your time at design time to generate the FontList Image .

[nareth]

cant i just set the font..... or something...

[Electroman]

Yea you can set the font but I can't see that speeding things up .

[nareth]

arf.....!!!!! well i just made a block image that will do it....

[nareth]

Set ddSurface = DD.CreateSurfaceFromResource(File, Name, DDSD)
automation error... File is "Map Editor.Res" name is "102"

why ???

[Electroman]

For the -2147467259 error the SDK says:
HRESULT: 0x80004005 (2147500037)
Name: E_FAIL
Description: An undetermined error occurred
Severity code: Failed
Facility Code: FACILITY_NULL (0)
Error Code: 0x4005 (16389)

Personally I've never used CreateSurfaceFromResource() I only ever use CreateSurfaceFromFile().

[nareth]

i tried it like here
http://216.5.163.53/DirectX4VB/Tutor...D_ResFiles.asp

on this line it says
Let DDSD.lWidth = LoadResPicture(Name, vbPicTypeBitmap).Width
it cant find the resource???????????!!!!!!!11
its there!!!

[Jacob Roman]

Try CreateSurfaceFromFile.

Sorry I haven't posted in here for awhile. Girl problems.