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draw text problem

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    text showing up as rectangles when drawing to surface

    Hello, I'm new to game maker and am running into a perplexing problem. When drawing text to the application surface it looks as expected (the alphabet below in grey) but when drawing over another surface (for a pause menu) the text appears as the white rectangles in the picture. The pause menu...
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    SOLVED Draw text change position with gmnet

    Hello, I'm starting a project with Gmnet and it happens that with the player that I created the server, the draw text works fine but the one that connects to the server draws the draw text higher than the original. it only happens with draw text, for example draw sprites and draw lines works...
    • jossm
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    • Forum: Programming
  3. Writerstix77

    GameMaker Text won't appear when hovering over an invisible object

    I have it so that when I hover the mouse over an object, it displays text at the bottom of the screen as to what that object is. However, this only works with visible objects. I want it to also work with invisible objects. All these objects (visible and invisible) have the same parent...
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    Legacy GM (SOLVED) draw_text_ext not applying width

    For some reason the w value is just ignored and the text just continues till it hits the cap. draw_set_alpha(1); draw_self(); draw_set_colour(c_black); input = keyboard_string; if string_length(input) > 60 { keyboard_string = string_copy(input, 1, 60); input = keyboard_string; }...
    • gray007nl
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    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Programming
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    GameMaker [SOLVED] Interface Elements Change Position on Continue/Retry

    I created a score and collectible item count in the upper left corner of the screen to keep track of how well the player is doing. When creating a new save file, it is placed where I want it to be. Although, once I click continue (from the title screen) or retry (from the game over screen), it...
    • Sarena
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    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Programming
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    Click not working on no-sprite obj_titles.

    Greetings! I am trying to create an interactive titles object that detects what room it's in, shows appropriate titles on the screen through a draw text action, changes a variable based on the point_in_rectangle function, and finally on the left mouse pressed event executes a command based on...
    • MrHarlan
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    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Programming
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    [SOLVED]Plz Help-> random draw text

    Hi everyone, I am quite new to writing codes in Gamemaker and i would like to ask for your help >.< Problem: I was trying to draw a random text message whenever the object is drawn. So i have put the following code in the "Draw" event: draw_self(); sptxt_exist = 0 draw_set_halign(fa_center)...
    • Comedian
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    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Programming
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    Help with Drawing text

    I'm very new to GML. Trying to do something which seems simple, but I can't get it to work. Just want to display text in the room when the mouse enters an object. I want the text to display info about the object, but for starters any text will do. Essentially have a collection of territories...
    • Falconius17
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    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Programming
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    GML I'm losing my mind! Why isn't my object drawing?

    Hey all! First time poster here, long time lurker. I'm hoping one of you will be able to help me solve my problem here. So, in my room I currently have two objects, each of which are attempting to draw text to the screen. The first one is successful, obj_timeController. Its code is as follows...
    • amarok_hk
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    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Programming
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    Help!Why "draw_text" don't work

    I output the project with Html5 module,then open the file with safari. Everything is ok.But"draw_text" dosn't work .It just shows nothing!What ever I put it in draw GUI event or draw event. But it works on windows.Why?
    • AOCGmutong
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    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Programming
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