03-21-2025, 07:50 PM
Remember us talking about your fridge and sticking magnets on it, using them to represent software images and hardware images?
That's what you're going here.
You're taking your fridge and painting it ... whatever you want for the main screen.
Then you're going in and painting whatever you want as your popup on top of it.
Then you're sticking that magnet on that fridge ... which would be the hardware image.
Two different layers and what you do to one never affects the other. You might paint that fridge a dozen times with screen clears and text and popups and everything else... but in the end, you're still going to stick that magnet on top of all that.
So what's the easy solution instead of working with two layers??
WORK WITH THREE LAYERS!!
Paint your fridge, CLS your background, put the text and stuff on it the colors you want.
Then stick a BIG flipping magnet on your fridge -- imagine one of those magnetic calendars. That's your pop-up.
Then stick another magnet on top of that one. That's your button on that calendar.
Three layers, stacked as needed to properly do what you're looking to do.
_DISPLAYORDER _SOFTWARE, _HARDWARE, _HARDWARE1 (I think this is the format)
Then...
Draw the software screen.
_PUTIMAGE (graphicX, graphicY), image_handle_for_hardware_popup
_PUTIMAGE (X, Y), image_handle_for_button, 1 (See the one here to hardware page 1)
_DISPLAY
That's basically all there is to it.
That's what you're going here.
You're taking your fridge and painting it ... whatever you want for the main screen.
Then you're going in and painting whatever you want as your popup on top of it.
Then you're sticking that magnet on that fridge ... which would be the hardware image.
Two different layers and what you do to one never affects the other. You might paint that fridge a dozen times with screen clears and text and popups and everything else... but in the end, you're still going to stick that magnet on top of all that.
So what's the easy solution instead of working with two layers??
WORK WITH THREE LAYERS!!
Paint your fridge, CLS your background, put the text and stuff on it the colors you want.
Then stick a BIG flipping magnet on your fridge -- imagine one of those magnetic calendars. That's your pop-up.
Then stick another magnet on top of that one. That's your button on that calendar.
Three layers, stacked as needed to properly do what you're looking to do.
_DISPLAYORDER _SOFTWARE, _HARDWARE, _HARDWARE1 (I think this is the format)
Then...
Draw the software screen.
_PUTIMAGE (graphicX, graphicY), image_handle_for_hardware_popup
_PUTIMAGE (X, Y), image_handle_for_button, 1 (See the one here to hardware page 1)
_DISPLAY
That's basically all there is to it.