"Highlighting" Text in a menu?

[XianForce]

Well let's say I had a menu and when the mouse hovered over it, the text was to change to a different color.

How would I go about doing that? I was thinking I'd create two colors, and then have it check each option to see if the mouse is hovering over it... But something tells me there's a better way to do it, so is there a better way to do it than individually checking each option, and then setting its color?

[MarauderIIC]

Just treat it like collision detection, but with mouse coordinates. So I guess that while there is a more efficient implementation, that one should do fine.

[XianForce]

Just treat it like collision detection, but with mouse coordinates. So I guess that while there is a more efficient implementation, that one should do fine.

One of these days... I'll find something better.... >.>

[XianForce]

Wait... Now that I think about it, I'd have to re-render the text every frame... And that means I'd have to keep deleting the text I rendered... There's no function... or maybe a different text library, where I can do something like "set_color()" ?

[MarauderIIC]

Wait... Now that I think about it, I'd have to re-render the text every frame...

Well, no, not really. Just re-render when mouse is over it but it wasn't last frame, and re-render when mouse isn't over it but it was last frame.
And you can always draw on top of it without erasing it.

[XianForce]

Wait... Now that I think about it, I'd have to re-render the text every frame...

Well, no, not really. Just re-render when mouse is over it but it wasn't last frame, and re-render when mouse isn't over it but it was last frame.
And you can always draw on top of it without erasing it.

oh yeah... cause creating the SDL_Surface* allocates the memory, not the text rendering...

[MarauderIIC]

oh yeah... cause creating the SDL_Surface* allocates the memory, not the text rendering...

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic (in which case we're misunderstanding each other's problem/solution) or not :)

[dandymcgee]

oh yeah... cause creating the SDL_Surface* allocates the memory, not the text rendering...

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic (in which case we're misunderstanding each other's problem/solution) or not

I'm pretty sure he was just agreeing with your solution. Didn't seem very sarcastic to me.

[XianForce]

oh yeah... cause creating the SDL_Surface* allocates the memory, not the text rendering...

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic (in which case we're misunderstanding each other's problem/solution) or not

nope, I'm not being sarcastic (I've learned computers suck at sarcasm... so I try not to use it xD)

[eatcomics]

If it's sarcasm you should put one of these at the end... Example:
"Yeah, everybody loves Raymond is the best comedy on tv "