Help for NEWBIES. NOTE: I am a newbie so I cant really help.

[Ian Price]

SETCURRENTDIR "Media"                               //  -------> "Media" needs to be in brackets - ("Media")
LOADSPRITE "blackout.png" ,0
DRAWSPRITE ,0 ,300,150                              //  --------> You have a comma before the 0 (zero)
SHOWSCREEN
MOUSEWAIT
END

[blackout12]

do you think you know what the problem is? If the .app thing you guys are talking about is located under project then I have my graphics in there. here is the code that isnt working:
SETCURRENTDIR "Media"
LOADSPRITE "blackout.png" ,0
DRAWSPRITE ,0 ,300,150
SHOWSCREEN
MOUSEWAIT
END

[blackout12]

THANK YOU so much!! its working, thank you 

[blackout12]

sorry, awesome experienced people, I have another question, I have the backround of my person set to the values in the help guide, 255, 0, and 128 but it shows up as pink, not transparent

[Ian Price]

You need to ensure that the colour is created as at least a 24bit .BMP or .PNG.

MSPaint fecks up values from time to time when saving that colour as a .PNG, so always save it as a 24bit .BMP first. You are pretty much guaranteed to get it working properly that way. You can then convert it to a .PNG if required.

I don't use other paint packages, so can't say if it's an MSPaint issue or just a general GLBasic issue.

[blackout12]

Im having a problem, i saved it as a 24 bmp. but how do I convert it to png.?

[Ian Price]

Just use the "SAVE AS" option in your paint program and select .PNG.

[blackout12]

thank you Ian Price, it didnt need to be png and it worked. thank you anyway. thank you so much for your help. I have two last questions, how much is 80 EUROS in american dollars because I am considering buying GLBasic, and how do you create a font, because I went to "create font" and selected a saving path, but when I clicked on " OK,CREATE" noting happened. I later looked at the saving path and it was there, but nothing had changed in GLBAsic

[Ian Price]

It's approx. US $105.

Are you sure the path was correct? My SAVEFONT saves my image on the desktop - perhaps your does too. Just move/copy it into the Media folder.

The SAVEFONT tool just creates a new font and doesn't make the font in the app - you have to load it and then use SETFONT (see the helpfile for more info how to use it).

[blackout12]

how do you convert a mp3 file into a "wav PC" file?

[Ian Price]

Seriously? While we can answer questions like that here, try Google for things a bit more outside the box. There are loads of different converters out there - some free some not so. Try looking up Audacity.

[blackout12]

ok sorry kind a stupi question*

[Darmakwolf]

SETCURRENTDIR "Media"
LOADSPRITE "blackout.png" ,0
DRAWSPRITE ,0 ,300,150
SHOWSCREEN
MOUSEWAIT
END

didnt work   

Your problem here is missing parenthesis, as well as a comma after DRAWSPRITE. The following should work, bro.

SETCURRENTDIR("Media")
LOADSPRITE "blackout.png",0
DRAWSPRITE 0 ,300,150
SHOWSCREEN
MOUSEWAIT
END

[Ian Price]

Your problem here is missing parenthesis, as well as a comma after DRAWSPRITE. The following should work, bro.

I'd already mentioned that - see first post on this page.

[Darmakwolf]

Your problem here is missing parenthesis, as well as a comma after DRAWSPRITE. The following should work, bro.

I'd already mentioned that - see first post on this page.

oh, right. didn't see that.