I can't get over this...

[Pete]

What I'm shooting for is a way to get the hardware image UNDER the text. So far, even with the _DISPLAY order statement, no luck.

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Screen 0, 0, 0, 0

Width 80, 42

Palette 5, 63

Cls

_Delay .1

_ScreenMove 0, 0

_DisplayOrder  _Software, _Hardware ' Reversing this order just eliminates the hardware image. 

Overlay = _NewImage(_Width * _FontWidth, _Height * _FontHeight, 32)

x% = 7 * 16: y% = 3 * 8

_Dest Overlay

_Display



img& = _LoadImage("activate-static.png", 32)

_PutImage (x%, y%), img&

Overlay_Hardware = _CopyImage(Overlay, 33)

_PutImage (0, 0), Overlay_Hardware

_Dest 0

Color 0, 5

Locate 3, 10, 1, 7, 30

Print "sakf sfkj safjsf sfjsf";

_Display

Sleep

  Right click image and "Save As" to your local QB64PE folder to test.

Pete

[SMcNeill]

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Screen 0, 0, 0, 0

Width 80, 42

Palette 5, 63

_PaletteColor 0, _RGBA32(0, 0, 0, 0)





Cls , 0

_Delay .1

_ScreenMove 0, 0

_DisplayOrder _Hardware , _Software ' Reversing this order just eliminates the hardware image.

Overlay = _NewImage(_Width * _FontWidth, _Height * _FontHeight, 32)

x% = 7 * 16: y% = 3 * 8

_Dest Overlay

_Display



img& = _LoadImage("z:\activate-static.png", 32)

_PutImage (x%, y%), img&, Overlay



Overlay_Hardware = _CopyImage(Overlay, 33)

_PutImage (0, 0), Overlay_Hardware

_Dest 0

'Color 0, 5

Color 5, 0



Locate 3, 10, 1, 7, 30

Print "sakf sfkj safjsf sfjsf";

_Display

Sleep

One major point of interest here:

SCREEN 0 has no alpha channel natively to any of the colors in it.  The whole screen is FULL ALPHA BLACK (_RGBA(255, 0, 0, 0) for reference), so you can't print below that screen.   Well, you can, but then you just immediately cover it up with black...

Think of it as painting a picture on your wall, and then painting the wall in black paint.  You just completely cover and conceal the picture you painted.

You've got to set your overpaint to be a transparent clear coat.   Paint your picture, then clear coat over it to preserve it. 

NOTE in the above, I used _PALETTECOLOR to change BLACK to TRANSPARENT BLACK.  Now you can lay the software screen over the hardware screen, and have no real issues. 

[Kernelpanic]

Well, that doesn't look particularly convincing either. 

[Pete]

In the meantime, I was going back in time, looking through some old notes and prior to PE, I dug up this, mildly modified...

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Screen 0 'just to highlight that this is going to be a scren 0 underlay



Color 0, 14

Cls , 14

For y = 1 To 50

    Locate y, 1: Print "*"; String$(78, 32); "*";

Next



Locate 1, 1: Print String$(80, "*");

Locate 2, 40 - Len("Hello Pete!  I'm a SCREEN 0 Underlay!") \ 2: Print "Hello Pete!  I'm a SCREEN 0 Underlay!"

Color 4, 0: Locate 3, 1: Print String$(_Width * (_Height - 3), Chr$(3));



HW = _CopyImage(TextScreenToImage32(0), 33)

'Now that we've created our screen that we want to use as a hardware underlay,

'We now need to do at least a little tweaking to our normal screen 0 palette



_PaletteColor 1, 0 'set color 1 to become 0 alpha, 0 red, 0 blue, 0 green -- transparent black instead of solid black!

'note that 0 is still the same old solid black as usual.

Color 7, 1 ' white on transparent black



_DisplayOrder _Hardware , _Software 'draw the hardware screen under the software screen

toggle = Not toggle

Do

    k = _KeyHit

    If k = 32 Then toggle = Not toggle

    Cls , 1 'clear the screen with a transparent black

    If toggle Then _PutImage (0, 0), HW 'and now our

    x = x - 1

    If x < 2 Then x = 66

    Locate 5, x: Print "HELLO SCROLL! ";

    _Limit 10

    _Display

Loop Until k = 27



Function TextScreenToImage32& (image&)

    d& = _Dest: s& = _Source

    Dim Plt(15) As Long

    _Source image&

    For i = 0 To 15: Plt(i) = _PaletteColor(i, image&): Next

    f& = _Font(image&)

    _Font f&

    fw& = _FontWidth

    fh& = _FontHeight

    w& = _Width * _FontWidth

    h& = _Height * _FontHeight '+ _HEIGHT

    l& = (_Width * _Height) * 2 'The screen is width * height in pixels.  (80X25) = 2000 X 2 bytes each = 4000 total bytes to hold a page of screen 0 text and color

    tempscreen& = _NewImage(w&, h& + _Height, 32)

    Screen0to32& = _NewImage(w&, h&, 32)

    _Dest tempscreen&



    Dim m As _MEM, b As _Unsigned _Byte, t As String * 1

    Dim o As _Offset

    m = _MemImage(image&)

    o = m.OFFSET



    _Font f&



    For i = 0 To l& - 2 Step 2

        _MemGet m, m.OFFSET + i, t

        _MemGet m, m.OFFSET + i + 1, b

        If b > 127 Then b = b - 128

        fgc = b Mod 16: bgc = b \ 16

        Color _RGB32(_Red(fgc, image&), _Green(fgc, image&), _Blue(fgc, image&)), _RGB32(_Red(bgc, image&), _Green(bgc, image&), _Blue(bgc, image&))

        Print t;

    Next

    _PutImage , tempscreen&, Screen0to32&, (0, 0)-(w&, h&)

    _FreeImage tempscreen&

    _Dest d&: _Source s&

    _MemFree m

    TextScreenToImage32 = Screen0to32&

End Function

Did you code that for me for Valentines Day? Oh wait, I did admit to modifying it.. a bit. Maybe a couple of bits, but anyway. I'm glad to see your reply example is FREE of _MEM. I was hoping it would be less complicated, and it appears that is so. Nice!

Thanks Professor Steve!

Pete

[SMcNeill]

Well, that doesn't look particularly convincing either. 

I didn't say it'd look pretty -- only that it'd be visible.  Anytime you print over something, you tend to make a mess of it, with letters overlapping and yucking out.  

[Pete]

If it'z purdy youz wantz, it'z purdy youze getz!

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Screen 0, 0, 0, 0

Width 50, 30

Palette 5, 63

Palette 6, 56

_PaletteColor 0, _RGBA32(0, 0, 0, 0)

Cls

_Delay .1

_ScreenMove 0, 0

enl% = 5: Call font_size_setup(enl%)

_DisplayOrder _Hardware , _Software

_Display ' Turn autodisplay off.

Overlay = _NewImage(_Width * _FontWidth, _Height * _FontHeight, 32)

x% = 5 * 16: y% = 3 * 8

img& = _LoadImage("form.png", 32)



Do

    _Limit 30

    b$ = InKey$

    If Len(b$) Then

        Exit Do

    End If



    _Dest Overlay



    _PutImage (x%, y%), img&

    Overlay_Hardware = _CopyImage(Overlay, 33)

    _PutImage (0, 0), Overlay_Hardware

    _FreeImage Overlay_Hardware

    _Dest 0

    Color 6, 5

    Locate 14, 16

    Print "Yosemite Sam";

    Locate 18, 16, 1, 7, 7

    Print "sayyurprayersvarmint";

    _Display

Loop

Color 0, 0: Cls



Sub font_size_setup (enl%)

    If displayfullscreen% = -1 Then Exit Sub

    WINXX1% = CsrLin: WINYY1% = Pos(1)

    winmode$ = "2"

    If enl% <> 0 Then

        full = _FullScreen

        If full = 0 Then

            Select Case enl%

                Case -1: If SCRNSIZE% > 0 Then Else Exit Sub

                Case 1: If SCRNSIZE% < 14 Then Else Exit Sub

            End Select

        Else

            Exit Sub

        End If

    End If

    SCRNSIZE% = SCRNSIZE% + enl%

    Select Case winmode$

        Case "1"

            full = _FullScreen

            If full <> 0 Then _FullScreen _Off

            GoSub ChangeFont

        Case "2"

            full = _FullScreen

            If full <> 0 Then _FullScreen _Off

            style$ = "MONOSPACE"

            fontsize% = SCRNSIZE% + 13

            If fontsize% < 14 Then winmode$ = ""

            If fontsize% < 28 Then style$ = style$ + ", BOLD"

            fontpath$ = Environ$("SYSTEMROOT") + "\fonts\lucon.ttf" 'Find Windows Folder Path.

            GoSub ChangeFont

        Case "3"

            GoSub ChangeFont

            _FullScreen _SquarePixels

            full = _FullScreen

            If full = 0 Then GoSub nofull

        Case "4"

            GoSub ChangeFont

            _FullScreen _Stretch

            full = _FullScreen

            If full = 0 Then GoSub nofull

    End Select

    Locate WINXX1%, WINYY1%

    Exit Sub



    nofull:

    _FullScreen _Off

    Return



    ChangeFont:

    If winmode$ <> "2" Then

        _Font 16 ' Inbuilt 8x16 default font.

        currentf& = _Font

    Else

        currentf& = _LoadFont(fontpath$, fontsize%, style$)

        _Font currentf&

    End If



    If currentf& <> f& And f& <> defaultf& Then _FreeFont f&

    f& = currentf&

    Return

End Sub

One question. Now with the transparent black background needed, is there anyway to keep this effect with a different color background?

Pete

   

[SMcNeill]

Make the color background a hardware image itself.  Just use SCREEN 0 for text text.

[Pete]

I was afraid that would be the only option. Still, it's doable.

Thanks again for the help using the _PALETTE statement to get it working. I was just about to enter the 9th Circle of Hell before you posted. Hung an immediate U-turn and saw Clippy in my rear view mirror as I sped back to the forum.

Pete