I have a complaint...

I'm sure this is old news but why ... WHY did Mark have to replace Text(X, Y, Text) with DrawText(Text, X, Y) and not include that in the .bb - .bmx file conversion process. This is just painful.

Ah ... Text still works (maybe due to a mod) but there are no center flags. I'm partially relieved.

You want to complain! Look at these shoes. I've only had them three weeks and the heels are worn right through....If you complain nothing happens, you might as well not bother...Oh my back hurts, it's not a very fine day and I'm sick and tired of this office.

Actually is the source available for the BB to BMX converter?
It's a handy little tool to have but needs more filters putting in ..

EXAMPLES

BB        BMX
==============
Color    SetColor
Oval     DrawOval
Rect     DrawRect

Add this function to your code:

Function Text(X:Float, Y:float, T:String)
    DrawText(T,x,y)
end function

also control-H replaces the commands for you

And with center tags...

Function Text(xPos_arg:Int, yPos_arg:Int, text_arg:String, centreX_arg:Byte = False, centreY_arg:Byte = False)
	DrawText text_arg,xPos_arg - ( TextWidth(text_arg)*(.5*centreX_arg) ),yPos_arg - ( TextHeight(text_arg)*(.5*centreY_arg) )
End Function

Stop using the DrawText command anyway, it's bad for you.

And the environment.

drawtext is useful for debugging.

drawtext is useful for anything. I might code an ascii wolfenstein just to spite you, hotcakes.

Ooooo. I smell a conflict. :P

Actually I think that might be me. I had sprouts earlier. :x

Me too... I just hope neither of them starts acting like an ascii-hole... XD

More dangerous than the LHC.

What's so bad with drawtext and what should be used in its place?

Its very slow to render... hurts your fps!



Bitmap fonts...

For some reason those conversions have been stubbed out (in the bb2bmx source file).

Yeah for some reason it's massively slow, so do like threvills says and use Bitmap Fonts.