I've only started programming with V2 recently, so I really don't have much of an idea what I'm doing yet... anyway, I've been fooling around with creating a simple menu system, but I can't get it to work!

The problem arises when displaying the background. It loads two .pcx files, one for where the characters are displayed and one for where the menu selections are displayed (like Final Fantasy games). Individually, they both work fine; however, if I try to load them both, they appear garbled and warped.

I have a feeling this stems from my limited understanding of the CopySprite functions, but I don't know what to do about it... here's the code I'm using.

void MainMenu()
{
int x, y, menuimg1, menuimg2;
menuimg1 = LoadImage("charmenu.pcx");
menuimg2 = LoadImage("menubar.pcx");
UnPress(3);
while (!b3)
{
Render();
x=ScreenX-80;
y=0;
CopySprite(0, 0, image_width, image_height, menuimg1);
CopySprite(x, 0, image_width, image_height, menuimg2);
GotoXY(x+5, y+5); PrintString(0, "Items"); y+=FontHeight(0);
GotoXY(x+5, y+5); PrintString(0, "Equip"); y+=FontHeight(0);
GotoXY(x+5, y+5); PrintString(0, "Magic");
ShowPage();
UpdateControls();
}
UnPress(3);
free(menuimg1);
free(menuimg2);
}

Any help in this area would be appreciated.

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image_width and image_height are ordinary variables basically, with the single exception that they're written to when you load an image. You have to do something like this:

int img_ptr0,img_ptr1; // data pointer
int img_x0,img_x1; // widths
int img_y0,img_y1; // heights

img_ptr0=LoadImage(...);
img_x0=image_width; img_y0=image_height;

img_ptr1=LoadImage(...);
img_x1=image_width; img_y1=image_height;

copysprite(blah,blah,img_x0,img_y0,img_ptr0);
copysprite(blah,blah,img_x1,img_y1,img_ptr1);

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You'll have to excuse the formatting. Stupid forums...



void TextBox(string filename, string line1, string line2, string line3, string line4)
{
int boximg, portraitimg, prtbgimg, yposition;
UnPress(1);
Render();
while(!b1)
{
while(timer)
{
timer--;
ProcessEntities();
}
Render();
yposition=ScreenY-(ScreenY/3);
boximg=LoadImage("textbox.pcx");
TCopySprite(0, yposition, image_width, image_height, boximg);
prtbgimg=LoadImage("portbox.pcx");
TCopySprite(0, yposition-image_height, image_width, image_height, prtbgimg);
portraitimg=LoadImage(filename);
CopySprite(5, yposition-image_height-5, image_width, image_height, portraitimg);
GotoXY(7, yposition+7); PrintString(0, line1); yposition+=FontHeight(0);
GotoXY(7, yposition+7); PrintString(0, line2); yposition+=FontHeight(0);
GotoXY(7, yposition+7); PrintString(0, line3); yposition+=FontHeight(0);
GotoXY(7, yposition+7); PrintString(0, line4); yposition+=FontHeight(0);
ShowPage();
UpdateControls();
}
UnPress(1);
free(boximg);
free(portraitimg);
free(prtbgimg);
}

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