creating a start menu

OK, I have a background image that covers the whole screen, but I can't seem to be able to get sprites to show over that image to use as buttons.

The code I have set up to just have the screen without any buttons is this:

Function Main_Menu()

camera = CreateCamera()

start_menu = LoadImage("GUI\start menu\splashscreen.jpg")
ResizeImage start_menu,screen_width,screen_height

Repeat

;replace with clicking the start button
If MouseHit(1)

Game_Mode = Main_Game
FreeImage start_menu
Exit

End If

If KeyHit(esc_key) Then End ;quit game

UpdateWorld
RenderWorld

Cls ;clear the screen for image

DrawImage start_menu,0,0

mouse_setup()

;WRITE ALL TEXTS HERE

Flip

Forever

End Function

What could I do to add the buttons?

Get Sprite Candy.

Agreed, if you can afford it, it's definitely worth buying.

It comes with a great bitmap font editor, and handles all your GUI needs (buttons, clickable text, scrolling text, input fields)

http://www.x-pressive.com/SpriteCandy/index.html

Hmm, I'll check it out

You can also try FONText, which is free.

Or nSprite2, which... er... isn't. :)

Remove the CLS line...

splashscreen HAS to have PURE BLACK (0,0,0) color to make it transparent. Try saving as BMP instead as JPG.

This is weird, The sprite still isn't showing after I load it, (not during the start menu function), and if I try to load the .bmp version of the background it says there is no image.