Painting on Smart.

[Mat]

When doing this how can you just remove the Text, as I want to keep the FDK image, but I want to changed the text, as it takes a long time to keep loading the paint image.
Any ideas?
Mat
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[Abu]

I'm thinking you could do:
(*
SMART_ClearCanvasArea
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. code-block:: pascal

procedure SMART_ClearCanvasArea(Area: TBox);

Clears a specific area of the SMART canvas defined by the box, 'Area'.

.. note::

Author: Coh3n
Last Modified: January 10th, 2012 by Coh3n

Example:

.. code-block:: pascal

SMART_ClearCanvasArea(IntToBox(10, 10, 50, 50));

To clear just the area where text would be and then call in SMART_DrawText

[ReadySteadyGo]

Just load the bitmap again and copy the tiny bit you need to repaint. No need to clear anything.

Edit: musafabitmap.copy

[Abu]

Just load the bitmap again and copy the tiny bit you need to repaint. No need to clear anything.

Loading the Bitmap again is what he wants to avoid doing?

I have a second suggestion, not sure if it works but:
http://docs.villavu.com/simba/scriptref/window.html?highlight=freeze

[Mat]

As the BMP is very large it takes a lot of time to load, and as its constantly under attack I don't want the player to die.

[ReadySteadyGo]

Loading the Bitmap again is what he wants to avoid doing?

I have a second suggestion, not sure if it works but:
http://docs.villavu.com/simba/scriptref/window.html?highlight=freeze

Loading a bitmap doesn't cost much, painting to smart does. Mat check my edit.

[Abu]

Loading a bitmap doesn't cost much, painting to smart does.

Ahh, clever girl boy...

Just joking, thanks for clearing that up, you had me worried for a second :p

[ReadySteadyGo]

Ahh, clever girl boy...

Just joking, thanks for clearing that up, you had me worried for a second :p


I'm on my phone otherwise I would have posted some code :p. I use this method in my scripts.

[Mat]

I'm not sure what you mean by:
musafabitmap.copy
Could you explain more <3
Mat
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[ReadySteadyGo]

It's just a function that copies a specified area of a bitmap which will allow you to only repaint a very small area over the old text before painting over again with the new text. Check the documentation for parameters.

[Yago]

Check how I do this in my script.