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Custom Visual Inventory - Stomach Pulser - 26-01-2008
Hello, I am attempting to code a visual inventory without using any tutorials. So far, I have it blt your items into a visual inventory picture box. But, I can't get it to do it right when you open frmMirage. For some reason, if I add an UpdateInventory into Form_Load, I get an error because the player hasn't been loaded yet. I tried using a timer and such.
Is there a reason that frmMirage would load before the game itself starts? Meaning, when you open up frmMainMenu?
Any help would be appreciated!
Re: Custom Visual Inventory - Dragoons Master - 26-01-2008
Add the UpdateInventory after you login. It's a packet, can't remember exacly now, I think it's "loginok", something like this.
Re: Custom Visual Inventory - Stomach Pulser - 26-01-2008
Tried after the login and the use_char, both gave me the error.
Also, once in-game, if you update inventory with a /inv or getting\dropping an item, the inventory blts properly.
Re: Custom Visual Inventory - Robin - 26-01-2008
Do it before the looping part in GameLoop.
frmMirage is loaded then shut down when you init DX
Re: Custom Visual Inventory - Stomach Pulser - 26-01-2008
Did that robin, it ended up not blting it.
Re: Custom Visual Inventory - Robin - 26-01-2008
Have you set the box to AutoRedraw, and are you using BltToDC?
Re: Custom Visual Inventory - Stomach Pulser - 26-01-2008
AutoRedraw is yes, but what is BltToDC? I just use Bitblt...
It works now, I added in a picture.refresh and it loads it properly. If anything new arises I'll post it.
Re: Custom Visual Inventory - Robin - 26-01-2008
Eurgh, not wonder it doesn't work.
Re: Custom Visual Inventory - Stomach Pulser - 26-01-2008
What is BltToDC, I know it is a DX7 function, but what makes it different?
Re: Custom Visual Inventory - Robin - 26-01-2008
BitBlt means you're loading all the graphics into memory again (as well as loading them into DX7 surfaces) to just blt them into a different box.
BltToDC means you can use the graphics stored in a surface rather than having to load everything again.
It also doesn't get wiped out like BitBlt.