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A problem regarding text fonts(Solved) #314931
03/12/10 06:47 03/12/10 06:47

Joined: Mar 2009
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Walori

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Walori

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G'day today I have a cosmetic problem for you guru's out there. The situation is as it follows:
(Link to the image:http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9704/problempic.jpg)

I've done two functions (see below for sources) which handle Quest interface, and more the part of text handling. First I load quests from separate file to the memory and initialize the txts and panels from this function. I copy texts to the newly created txts and assign a font to the txt. So far so good (look the picture; the text below the panel is the text copied to the memory)

Now when I press F3 in this case I open my nicely done questbook. Panels load ok, They get aligned and painted as I want but the texts use the original font from Acknex engine. (See picture; The last quest on the panel and compate it to the text foreground). Now this wouldn't be such a problem if I didn't want to use WWRAP, but I do.Note that I'm copying from struct array (QUEST*quest[200] to the function array QUEST*q[20],see source)

TLDR (And the question): What happens to the font when I copy it to the function pointer from memory where font works? And why if I try to add font later to the book txts they disappear?

SOURCES:

Code:

Defined:
FONT* ArialB = "Arial#18";
FONT* ArialN = "Arial#14";

typedef struct
{
   Quest*quest[200];
}MODULE;

Questbook:

Code:

function INIT_CHR_QUESTBOOK(MODULE*mod, CHR*chr)
{
	var i;
	var a;
	var b;
	int open = 0;
	var x_pos = 0;
	var y_pos = 40;
	int f3_clear = 1;
	QUEST*q[20];
	for(i=0;i<20;i++)
	{
		q[i] = NULL;
	}
	PANEL* qb_bg=
	{
		pos_x = 0;
		pos_y = 0;
		size_x = 0;
		size_y = 0;
		//bmap = NULL;
		green = 0;
		blue = 120;
		red = 0;
		layer = 100;
		flags = VISIBLE | LIGHT | TRANSLUCENT;
	}
	TEXT* q_title = 
	{
		strings = 1;
		font = "Arial#16";
		layer = 105;
	}
	TEXT* q_desc =
	{
		strings = 1;
		font = "Arial#14";
		layer = 105;
	}
	PANEL* q_pan=
	{
		pos_x = 0;
		pos_y = 0;
		size_x = 0;
		size_y = 0;
		layer  = 100;
	}

	PANEL*clicked_panel = NULL;
	QUEST*clicked_quest = NULL;
	//Just to keep on tracks of inventories
	INVENTORY* inv = new(INVENTORY);
	inv->id = 2;
	inv->open = 0;
	chr->inventory[2] = inv;
	while(chr != NULL && mod != NULL)
	{
		//This is to check if there are new quests
		//Note that q[20] is only a pointer to quests in the player, we won't mod anything on that array
		for(i=0;i<20;i++)
		{
			for(a=0;a<20;a++)
			{
				if(q[a] == chr->quest[i])
				{
					break;
				}
				//if we didn't break,we have a new quest
				for(b=0;b<20;b++)
				{
					if(q[b] == NULL)
					{
						q[b] = chr->quest[i];
						//q[b]->description_txt->font ="Arial#16";
						//chr->quest[i]->title_pan->pos_x =
						break;
					}
				}	
			}
		}
		for(i=0;i<20;i++)
		{
			if(q[i] != NULL)
			{
				q[i]->description_txt->font = ArialN;
			}
		}
		if(key_f3 && f3_clear && open == 0)
		{
			set(qb_bg,VISIBLE);
			qb_bg.pos_x = 0;
			qb_bg.pos_y = 0;
			qb_bg.size_x = 240;
			qb_bg.size_y = screen_size.y;
			for(i=0;i<20;i++)
			{
				if(chr->quest[i] != NULL)
				{
					//We leave 100 pixels for each quest
					if(y_pos < screen_size.y - 100)
					{
						chr->quest[i]->title_txt->pos_x = x_pos;
						chr->quest[i]->title_txt->pos_y = y_pos;
						chr->quest[i]->title_txt->size_x = qb_bg->size_x - 2*x_pos;
						chr->quest[i]->title_txt->size_y = 20;
						chr->quest[i]->title_txt->flags = VISIBLE | WWRAP;
						chr->quest[i]->description_txt-> pos_x = x_pos;
						chr->quest[i]->description_txt->pos_y = y_pos+23;
						chr->quest[i]->description_txt->size_x = qb_bg->size_x - 2*x_pos;
						test_var3 = chr->quest[i]->description_txt->size_x;
						chr->quest[i]->description_txt->size_y = 70;
						chr->quest[i]->description_txt->flags = VISIBLE | WWRAP;
						layer_sort(chr->quest[i]->description_txt, 200);
						chr->quest[i]->title_pan->pos_x = x_pos;
						chr->quest[i]->title_pan->pos_y = y_pos;
						chr->quest[i]->title_pan->size_x = qb_bg->size_x - 2*x_pos;
						chr->quest[i]->title_pan->size_y = 20;
						chr->quest[i]->title_pan->red = 250;
						chr->quest[i]->title_pan->green = 250;
						chr->quest[i]->title_pan->blue = 0;
						chr->quest[i]->title_pan->flags = VISIBLE | LIGHT;
						chr->quest[i]->description_pan->pos_x = x_pos;
						chr->quest[i]->description_pan->pos_y = y_pos+21;
						chr->quest[i]->description_pan->size_x = qb_bg->size_x - 2*x_pos;
						chr->quest[i]->description_pan->size_y = 70;
						chr->quest[i]->description_pan->flags = VISIBLE | LIGHT;
						y_pos +=100;
					}
				}
			}
			f3_clear = 0;
			open = 1;
		}
		if(!key_f3) f3_clear = 1;
		if(open == 1 && f3_clear == 1 && !key_f3)
		{
			if(mouse_left)
			if(mouse_panel)
			{
				for(i=0;i<20;i++)
				{
					if(chr->quest[i] != NULL)
					{
						if(chr->quest[i]->description_pan == mouse_panel)
						{
							clicked_panel = mouse_panel;
							clicked_quest = chr->quest[i];
							str_cpy((q_title->pstring)[0],(clicked_quest->title_txt->pstring)[0]);
							str_cpy((q_desc->pstring)[0],(clicked_quest->description_txt->pstring)[0]);
							break;
						}
					}
				}
			}
			if(clicked_quest != NULL)
			{	
				if(q_pan.size_y < 400)
				{
					q_pan.flags = VISIBLE | LIGHT;
					q_pan.pos_y = 100;
					q_pan.pos_x = qb_bg.size_x;
					q_pan.size_x = 250;
					q_pan.red = 250;
					q_title.pos_x = qb_bg->size_x;
					q_title.pos_y = q_pan.pos_y+3;
					q_desc.pos_y = q_title.pos_y+20;
					q_desc.pos_x = qb_bg->size_x;
					q_pan.size_y +=160*time_step;
				}
				else
				{
					q_desc.flags = VISIBLE;
					q_title.flags = VISIBLE;
					str_cpy((q_title->pstring)[0],(clicked_quest->title_txt->pstring)[0]);
					str_cpy((q_desc->pstring)[0],(clicked_quest->description_txt->pstring)[0]);				
				}
				
			}
		}
		if(key_f3 && f3_clear == 1 && open == 1)
		{
			str_cpy((q_title->pstring)[0],"");
			str_cpy((q_desc->pstring)[0],"");
			q_desc.flags = NULL;
			q_title.flags = NULL;
			q_pan.flags = NULL;
			reset(qb_bg,VISIBLE);
			for(i=0;i<20;i++)
			{
				if(chr->quest[i] != NULL)
				{
					chr->quest[i]->title_txt->flags = NULL;
					chr->quest[i]->description_txt->flags = NULL;
					chr->quest[i]->description_pan->flags = NULL;
					chr->quest[i]->title_pan->flags = NULL;
				}
			}
			y_pos = 40;
			q_pan.size_y = 0;
			open = 0;
			f3_clear = 0;
		}
	wait(5);	
	}	
}

Loading to the struct array

Code:

function INIT_MODULE_QUEST(MODULE*mod, STRING* file_path)
{
	var i;
	var fhandle;
	var var_temp;
	var a = 0;
	var count = 0;
	STRING* temp_str="";
	fhandle = file_open_read(file_path);
	file_str_readto(fhandle,temp_str,"~",4000);
	file_str_readto(fhandle,temp_str,"~",4000);
	file_str_readto(fhandle,temp_str,"~",4000);
	str_cpy(temp_str,"");
	while(1)
	{
		QUEST* q = new(QUEST);
		q->title_txt = txt_create(1,0);
		q->description_txt = txt_create(1,0);
		q->id = file_var_read(fhandle);
		
		if(q->id == 0)
		{
			ptr_remove((q->title_txt.pstring)[0]);
			ptr_remove(q->title_txt);
			ptr_remove((q->description_txt.pstring)[0]);
			ptr_remove(q->description_txt);
			free(q);
			break;
		}
		q->description_txt->font = ArialN;
		q->title_txt->font = ArialB;
		file_str_readto(fhandle,(q->title_txt->pstring)[0],"~",4000);
		file_str_readto(fhandle,(q->description_txt->pstring)[0],"~",4000);
		q->required_quest = file_var_read(fhandle);
		q->completed = 0;
		q->required_gossipP = file_var_read(fhandle);
		q->required_gold = file_var_read(fhandle);
		q->quest_giver = file_var_read(fhandle);
		q->quest_receiver = file_var_read(fhandle);
		q->quest_objective = file_var_read(fhandle);
		q->quest_doer = file_var_read(fhandle);
		for(i=0;i<4;i++)
		{
			q->received_item[i] = file_var_read(fhandle);
		}
		//THIS IS PRE POSITION FOR DEBUG MSG
		for(i=0;i<3;i++)
		{
			OBJECTIVE* obj = new(OBJECTIVE);
			obj->item_1 = 0;
			obj->npc_1 = 0;
			obj->complete = 0;
			obj->item_c_1 = file_var_read(fhandle);
			obj->npc_c_1 = file_var_read(fhandle);
			obj->required_item = file_var_read(fhandle);
			obj->required_npc = file_var_read(fhandle);
			q->obj[a] = obj;
			a++;
		}
		a = 0;
		mod->quest[q->id] = q;
	wait(1);	
	}
	ptr_remove(temp_str);
	file_close(fhandle);
	return 1;
}

(Sorry for huges post, this has just bugged me for a while and would really like to get on with it

Yours
Walori

Last edited by Walori; 03/15/10 11:02.

Re: A problem regarding text fonts [Re: Walori] #315369 03/14/10 23:39 03/14/10 23:39
Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 1,710 MMike Serious User
MMike Serious User Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 1,710	does Questquest works ? i mean shouln't be a space, like Quest quest; Also why you did define FONT* "bla" when you dont even use it one the TEXT* entities? Im afraid you can't define correctly font? "arial" directly.. thats why font_create exists..

Re: A problem regarding text fonts [Re: MMike] #315392 03/15/10 06:54 03/15/10 06:54
Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 88 Walori OP Junior Member
Walori OP Junior Member Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 88	Quest does work as much it should at this point ( leaving this out) The font define was only for testing to see if it's something wrong with those I had defined straight to the objects. Result is still the same. regards walori EDIT: All works now, appearently I had given questbook structure an invalid pointer which I created upon quest giving, it's a mystery though why engine didn't throw an error message for invalid pointer Last edited by Walori; 03/15/10 11:03.

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