Text boxes

[Ryoutarou]

I'm very very confused on how to use Multimedia Fusion Dev 2 and I wanted to make text boxes like the games.... but how would I go about making it?

[Anders]

Which text boxes in which games?

[stAtrill]

Do you mean speech bubbles?

[Ryoutarou]

Which text boxes in which games?

like just normal side scrollers

Rockman, mario. stuff like that

[Nick]

I don't recall mario really having any text boxes. But if you mean a box that pops up and gives you a message, the easiest way to do that would be:

Create a new frame containing the text you want, then load it into the main frame using a sub-application and therefor freezing the original game while the player reads the text.

[Ryoutarou]

I don't recall mario really having any text boxes. But if you mean a box that pops up and gives you a message, the easiest way to do that would be:

Create a new frame containing the text you want, then load it into the main frame using a sub-application and therefor freezing the original game while the player reads the text.

????????? like I said ...total noob at this

[Yves]

Should be easier to do with an ASB object : create an Active System Box object, enter your text, select the text color, the font, the background and border colors, and then put it outside the frame area, unselect its "Create at start" option in its properties (you must use the build 246 for that), and in the event editor when you want to display it just do a Create Object and when you want to remove it do a Destroy object.

[Nick]

Yves did state a much simpler option. The Active System Box acts as a text box with customisable colours (it can also act as a button if you wish). Simply create and delete this object when you need it to be displayed. You can also change the text it displays while the game is running.