how to show text

bernardfrancois · Post by **bernardfrancois** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 9:26 am

Hello,

I'm new to PureBasic. I'm looking for the command to print text on the screen. The print command only works in a console window in windows, and the drawtext command doesn't work in linux...

Anyone who knows how I can do this in Linux? (is there a method that works in Windows, AmigaOS and Linux?)

Greetz,

Bernard

Post by **Fred** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 10:43 am

Will be possible with the next version, for now you can't, as this function isn't implemented.

bernardfrancois · Post by **bernardfrancois** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 10:46 am

so in linux-PB there's no way to show text, for example in the interface of a game???

Brujah · Post by **Brujah** » Mon Nov 03, 2003 7:47 pm

I had the same problem.
And I fixed it

I wrote a nice little routine that uses sprites to show text.
(Is slow but works... Good until the new version is out...)
Are you interested in this ?
I can mail it to you...

pbdep · Post by **pbdep** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 12:09 pm

Hiya,

If you want to print to a TERMINAL console it should work, though not
the way windows does. (you could write you own lib calls to Curses)

If you want to use GUI for this have a look at the GTKSERVER at http://www.turtle.dds.nl/gtk-server/index.html

Alll GTK routines directly from within scripts

Pritty easy...

Greetings, Pbdep.

bernardfrancois · Post by **bernardfrancois** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 3:43 am

can you show me some example code of this?

in fact I don't have linux... but if would be nice if I could just replace some lines and compile as a linux executable (but that requires the linux version which only runs under linux?)