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From: "Nigel Critten" <Nigel@gameware.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: speech bubbles
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 22:25:00 +0100
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Hi,

Just thought I would ask if anyone had any cool ideas on how to draw speech
bubbles.

They need to be expandable, width, height and they need to be able to move
around the screen.

At the moment, I'm plotting the corners, then working out the length and
plotting the number of squares across & down and then fill in the middle and
finally draw the triangle to show whose mouth the speech is coming from this
is flippable, not the most efficient way of doing it I'm sure, these have
rounded corners and straight edges, I think I'll need think bubbles as well.

Any bright ideas?

Oh yeah and the background to the bubble needs to be transparent otherwise
they are to obtrusive.

Nigel