Custom Visual Inventory

[Stomach Pulser]

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!

[Dragoons Master]

Add the UpdateInventory after you login. It's a packet, can't remember exacly now, I think it's "loginok", something like this.

[Stomach Pulser]

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.

[Robin]

Do it before the looping part in GameLoop.

frmMirage is loaded then shut down when you init DX

[Stomach Pulser]

Did that robin, it ended up not blting it.

[Robin]

Have you set the box to AutoRedraw, and are you using BltToDC?

[Stomach Pulser]

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.

[Robin]

Eurgh, not wonder it doesn't work.

[Stomach Pulser]

What is BltToDC, I know it is a DX7 function, but what makes it different?

[Robin]

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.