freeimage not working :(

in the following code i want to delete the splashScreen and draw the hud. what it does now is load the splashscreen and after 7 seconds it draws the HUD but it does not delete the splashscreen image previously loaded:(

here is the code:

graphics 640,480,0,2 ;ponemos el modo grafico en 640x480 con profundidad 0 modo 2 (ventana)

setbuffer backbuffer()

const BufferWidth=640, BufferHeight=480

;global images
;global mouseImage=loadimage("punteroMouse.bmp")
splashScreen=loadimage("splashScreen.bmp"); pantalla de bienvenida
hud_image=LoadImage("hud.png") ;el HUD


;ahora creamos una imagen negra donde dibujaremos
global pictureBuffer=createimage(bufferwidth,bufferheight)

;musica de fondo
musicaFondo=playmusic("musicaFondo.mp3")

;pantalla de bienvenida
drawimage(splashScreen,0,0) ;parte desde la posicion 0,0
flip
Delay 7000
freeimage splashScreen
splashScreen=0

Text 230,240,"Entrando al level 1"
Flip
Delay 2000

DrawImage(hud_image,0,350)
Flip

;Stop ;solo de prueba

please help me.

You are deleting the Image, but you are not clearing (cls) the backbuffer.
You cannot depend on the old image being there, but equaly you cannot depend on it not being there.
I imagine that the HUD is appearing Over (in) the splash screen?

yep, the HUD is over (in) the splashscreen

btw, what is the command to clear the image?

;set ClsColor to red
ClsColor 255,0,0

;set current drawing buffer to the color set by the ClsColor command
Cls

excellent!

it is now working :P i can continue :P

many thanks!

B!