Annoying String Overlay Bug

[SourC]

Hey guys,

I've made a faily basic dialogue system for a game I am making, where the user can press a key to advance the text on screen. It has all been working out ok so far except for an annoying bug with the text strings.

Every time a new paragraph is displayed, the previous one does not disappear as it should, but only if this new paragraph is shorter than the previous one.
This leaves the remainder of the last paragraph underneath the new text making the new paragraph overlap the old one causing the text to become unreadable.

However, if I scroll the screen even a few pixels in any direction, it sorts itself out. I hope that makes some sort of sense, it's driving me mad.


Any help with this would be great.

[DavidN]

A couple of things to try - make sure the boundaries of the string object in the Frame Editor are large enough to hold all the text that it actually displays (in some cases, text that's displayed outside the box won't be updated correctly), and make sure that the property "Display as background" is not checked in the string's properties.

[SourC]

I've figured it out, I had to set the background to refresh every 1m second. Stopped the text hanging up.

Thanks for the reply though.

[DavidN]

Thanks for posting your solution!