Am I doing something wrong? I can't get Shapes to draw.

[MarthKoopa]

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Shape hpBar;
Shape mpBar;
Shape xpBar;
hpBar.Rectangle( 50, 30, Player.HP + 50, 16, Color(0, 255, 0), 1, Color(255, 255, 255) );
mpBar.Rectangle( 50, 60, Player.MP + 50, 16, Color(0, 0, 255), 1, Color(255, 255, 255) );
xpBar.Rectangle( 50, 90, Player.XP + 50, 16, Color(255, 0, 0), 1, Color(255, 255, 255) );


That's how I set them up, then I just draw them to the screen like everything else.

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Screen.Draw(hpBar);
Screen.Draw(mpBar);
Screen.Draw(xpBar);

I'm using SFML 2.0 with VC++ 2008

[Walker]

That's how I set them up, then I just draw them to the screen like everything else.

And what happens? Does everything else draw correctly?

Are you calling Display()? :wink:

[Laurent]

Read the doc and examples carefully, Rectangle is a static function which returns the created shape

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hpBar = sf::Shape::Rectangle(...);

[Laurent]

You can create shapes on the fly without exploding the memory, they will properly get destroyed when exiting their scope.

But this is not an efficient strategy. You'd better create your bars once, with a 1 pixel width, and simply use the X scale to adjust the width dynamically according to the player's attributes (note that this is not going to work in SFML 1.6, though ).

And is there an easier way to make the bars fill up to a certain point without having to put a second one under the frame?

Nop.