Mac OSX Trying to Draw GUI Text on Enemy Death

[myemanisbob]

As the Title suggests, I'm trying to draw text on the screen whenever an enemy dies. My dead enemy is a separate object, so I'm writing all of this code on his create event, so that it triggers the second he dies. The game is not crashing, but no text is appearing. What am I doing wrong? All I want is the letter F to appear on the top left of the screen when an enemy dies.

gui_width = display_get_gui_width();
gui_height = display_get_gui_height();
gui_margin = 32;
text_x = gui_width + 200;
text_y = gui_height + gui_margin;
text_itemheight = font_get_size(fnt_menu);
draw_set_font(fnt_menu);
draw_set_halign(fa_left);
draw_set_valign(fa_top);
var txt = "F"
var xx = text_x;
var yy = text_y - (text_itemheight * 1.5);
draw_set_color(c_black);
draw_text(xx,yy,txt);

 

[samspade]

You can only use draw commands in the draw/gui events. Also, the create event only fires once, so even if you could do it there, it would only exist for 1 frame (which is presumably 1/60th of a second). Try moving it to a gui draw event and seeing if it works then.

It might be worth reviewing the manual on what events do and what order they go in as well: https://docs2.yoyogames.com/source/_build/2_interface/1_editors/events/index.html

 

[Tony Brice]

First question. What colour is your background in the game? I ask this because you're setting the text colour to black.

 

[BattleRifle BR55]

Also, don't get into the habit of storing variables into variables redundantly.

 

[myemanisbob]

You can only use draw commands in the draw/gui events. Also, the create event only fires once, so even if you could do it there, it would only exist for 1 frame (which is presumably 1/60th of a second). Try moving it to a gui draw event and seeing if it works then.

It might be worth reviewing the manual on what events do and what order they go in as well: https://docs2.yoyogames.com/source/_build/2_interface/1_editors/events/index.html

No change in the Draw GUI event. Also the background is grey so the black should show up.

 

[samspade]

Looks like you're also drawing it off screen. 0 0 is top left, and positive on the y axis is down try:

text_y = gui_margin;

You could also check this: https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/checklist-for-missing-text-bugs.28463/