Let me start by saying Im sorry I dont have any code for you guys to go off of and Im not wanting you guys to do my work for me...I am however asking that if anyone knows where I can get a tutorial or even if they can show me the code it would be highly appreciated. Dont think I didnt google because I have a few times and everything I can find on it doesnt really help me.
I am working with Dark GDK on a 2d game. A reason I have no code for you guys is that Im working on my code one task at a time then Im going to compile it when I have it all done...(Testing aside). Im working on my Main Menu and Im not doing buttons Its like buttons but my backround is just a simple .bmp with what looks like buttons on it...(Haha no one will care if it works). I figured I could do something involving the mouse coordinates like if a mouse click is within a certain range of coordinates it would go from there...Such as if they clicked single player...It would start single player code...Im kinda at a wall here guys and I got guys working on the animations for single player and I really dont want to get behind on them because (It was my idea to do this) I need to be a good leader you know how it is with game programming once something goes wrong everyone starts jumping ship.

So any ideas, links, helpful opinions, just about anything to get me rolling again...I appreciate it in advance. Well im off to start googling...=)

I don't know much about DarkGDK but I do have a suggestion for you if you know how to get the position of the mouse. Since you said you are using a .bmp for this you will know the (x,y) coordinates of the 'buttons' on the image. You will also know the height and width of the buttons. Create arrays for each button with the X coordinate first, then the Y coordinate second followed by the width and the height.



Once you have found out if the mouse coordinates there is a simple function I wrote that would check if the mouse was inside the 'button'. It takes the x coordinate of the mouse and checks to see if it is between the starting point and the starting point plus the width. If that succeeds it checks if the y coordinate is between the starting Y coordinate and the starting Y coordinate and the height.



Alternatively you could use the four points and just check them.



I don't think it is hard to find mouse clicks with DarkGDK but I could be wrong as I've never used it. Those would be the two easiest methods of finding out if the mouse is clicked in the area you want though.

Yeah thats kinda what I was thinking...Im going to test this code and get you something back.

SixOfEleven pretty much summed it up.

Since you are just using an image with the buttons drawn on it (I've done that before), you need the screen coordinates of the buttons.
You can find these by loading the image into any image editor, and checking the coordinates (in pixels).

Once you have these, just go ahead and create a few arrays to store them, as SixOfEleven suggested.

Using DarkGDK, the code to check the position would be something like this (SixOfEleven's code remains the same)...

int singlePlayerButton[] = { 100, 100, 100, 20 };


if (dbMouseClick() == 1)
{
	int x = dbMouseX();
	int y = dbMouseY();

	if (CheckInside(singlePlayerButton, x, y))
	{
		// Handle button select code here...
	}
}

bool CheckInside(int button[], int x, int y)
{
	// Use 1 of the 2 options SixOfEleven posted earlier...
}

Thanks guys I got all this to work yesterday, I appreciate all the help even though I lacked code to show you guys. I'll make sure I share the finished code with ya.

This post has been edited by srlester: 29 Sep, 2009 - 05:59 PM

Problem Solved for anyone with this same issue here is some code for you, Thanks for all the help this is my function I came up with...Its mostly all your ideas in one:

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