CrystalShire Bubble Chat on EO 2.0

[abhi2011]

What should I put them as? Yea I don't know anything in DD7

[Domino_]

@abhi2011:

> Easy for you to say. I don't know how!

Thats why u have to learn more and more!
Also you have to read all posts here to know what to do…
See what problems other got and check for answers... Maybe they had same problem with centering? :D

[abhi2011]

I have thats why I posted it. Will check into it.

[Wilfre]

@waseemk:

> No, it just closes it without showing anything. It's sorta like it thinks it is supposed to do that.

Check your CPS on your server. I've noticed this tutorial without anything else will cause an **EXTREME** CPS and FPS drop. I'd get an FPS of 18 to 21 and a CPS of 3 to 19.

[Mistlight]

Its fine on mine. Maybe its just your computer :P

[Robin]

The centralisation problem comes because you ported over the DX8 font width method rather than using the DD7 native to EO.

```
Public Function EngineGetTextWidth(ByRef UseFont As String, ByVal text As String) As Integer
Dim LoopI As Integer

    'Make sure we have text
    If LenB(text) = 0 Then Exit Function

    'Loop through the text
    For LoopI = 1 To Len(text)
        EngineGetTextWidth = EngineGetTextWidth + LetterWidth(Mid$(text, LoopI, 1))
    Next LoopI

End Function

Public Function LetterWidth(ByVal text As String) As Integer
' You can use this function to specify the width of each letter you'll be using, if unspecified space will be 4 pixels.

    Select Case text
        Case "!", "1", "I", "i", "|", "l", "¡", "'", ".", ",", ";", ":"
            LetterWidth = 2
        Case Else
            LetterWidth = 4
    End Select
End Function

```
Remove all that.

Replace all calls with getWidth(). Pass through the DC and the string as the parameters. Will perfectly centralise everything.

[abhi2011]

Thanks.

[santa-clause]

Thanks Robin you're the best.

[Mondo]

@Robin:

> The centralisation problem comes because you ported over the DX8 font width method rather than using the DD7 native to EO.
>
> ```
> Public Function EngineGetTextWidth(ByRef UseFont As String, ByVal text As String) As Integer
> Dim LoopI As Integer
>
>     'Make sure we have text
>     If LenB(text) = 0 Then Exit Function
>    
>     'Loop through the text
>     For LoopI = 1 To Len(text)
>         EngineGetTextWidth = EngineGetTextWidth + LetterWidth(Mid$(text, LoopI, 1))
>     Next LoopI
>
> End Function
>
> Public Function LetterWidth(ByVal text As String) As Integer
> ' You can use this function to specify the width of each letter you'll be using, if unspecified space will be 4 pixels.
>
>     Select Case text
>         Case "!", "1", "I", "i", "|", "l", "¡", "'", ".", ",", ";", ":"
>             LetterWidth = 2
>         Case Else
>             LetterWidth = 4
>     End Select
> End Function
>
> ```
> Remove all that.
>
> Replace all calls with getWidth(). Pass through the DC and the string as the parameters. Will perfectly centralise everything.

Yep, noticed that and posted it on reply #34… I've updated the tutorial reflecting that.

Much appreciated.

[erkro1]

I've replaced the DrawChatBubble thing and now I get this:

[Wortel Angels]

I think the chat bubble is viewed too long… how can i make it shorter

[Joyce]

I can't possibly imagine you actually read through the code and didn't see this:

```
' check if it's timed out - close it if so
        If .Timer + 5000 < GetTickCount Then
            .active = False
        End If
```
The 5000 stands for 5 Seconds (5000ms / 1000 = 5s). So changing that would reduce or increase the time displayed on screen.

[Wortel Angels]

ummm… i didnt see it >.< sry and thanks

[bunny123]

Attachment is missing.

[Alerd]

whether it is to change the coding on Europe?

[erkro1]

> whether it is to change the coding on Europe?

The code is VB6, what do you mean with Europe?

[Alerd]

i change language to polish (Ł ą ż)


[DopeyBiach]

Does anyone have this file? - chatbubble.bmp

The one used in this rip?

Please PM me or attach if you do, thank you!

[Alerd]

I have chatbubble.bmp

Problem is ecoding

[DopeyBiach]

Could you please upload it to a post or pm it to me? :] - It's only bubblechat.bmp I want 

[Justn]

Here is the file if anyone needs it

[DopeyBiach]

EDited out, nvm

[Cristian624]

I have this problem, i use the last update of this tutorial and the text is not center and I don't know why but the bubble chat is in the face of the character (the character sprite is 64x64) look:


Help me please i need this very much!

[abhi2011]

You will have to edit where the buble appears. It seems you are using your own Sprites. The coords given by mondo are for RPG Maker XP sprites.

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