Legacy GM Change fonts if selected

[Latch]

Hi all, Ive recently come back to GM and I am incredibly rusty. I have my old code for my game which I am in the process of recreating to get me back to scratch, however, I cant seem to figure this part out:

I am trying to have the font change if the option is selected, the code looks like this:

for(var i=0;i<maxselect;i++)
{
    if selected = i
    {
        draw_set_font(font2);             
    }
        //When the text is not selected
    else {draw_set_font(font1);}
}

if room = rm_main
{
    draw_text (192,416,"Start Game")
    draw_text (192,416+64,"Options")
    draw_text (192,416+128,"Exit Game")
}
}

But this changes all the fonts and not just the one that is selected, what am I doing wrong?

 

[FrostyCat]

You just shuffled paint buckets around for short while, then painted a wall with the last one you handled. Would you be surprised if your wall turned out to be only one colour?

Put your options in an array beforehand:

options_rm_main[0] = "Start Game";
options_rm_main[1] = "Options";
options_rm_main[2] = "Exit Game";

Then incorporate that into your loop:

for(var i = 0; i < maxselect; i++)
{
    if (selected == i)
    {
        draw_set_font(font2);            
    }
    else
    {
        draw_set_font(font1);
    }
    draw_text(192, 416+64*i, options_rm_main[i]);
}

 

[TailBit]

The text have to be drawn between each font change

if room = rm_main
{
    var text = ["Start Game","Options","Exit Game"];

    for(var i=0;i<maxselect;i++)
    {

       if selected = i {
           draw_set_font(font2);
       }else{
           draw_set_font(font1);
       }

       draw_text (192,416,text[i])
    }

}

or do it with the font instead:

if room = rm_main
{
    var i=0;
    var f = [font1,font2];

    draw_set_font(f[i++=selected]);
    draw_text (192,416,"Start Game")

    draw_set_font(f[i++=selected]);
    draw_text (192,416+64,"Options")

    draw_set_font(f[i++=selected]);
    draw_text (192,416+128,"Exit Game")
}