GameView Update problem

[sterlingy]

In my app, a game, when the hero character is killed, I want to scroll the back to the starting position. What happens is that it jumps back.

I use a loop, but it seems that the GameView does not update until the loop finishes.

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

Log("startLocY: " & startLocY)
Log("CenterY: " & game.streetBackground.SrcRect.CenterY)
      Do While game.streetBackground.SrcRect.CenterY <> startLocY
         If game.streetBackground.SrcRect.CenterY > startLocY Then
            game.streetBackground.SrcRect.top = game.streetBackground.SrcRect.top -  1 '4dip ' Mod (game.streetBackground.Bitmap.Height - 62%y / game.backgroundScale)
            game.streetBackground.SrcRect.Bottom = game.streetBackground.SrcRect.top + 62%y / game.backgroundScale  + 1
         Else
            game.streetBackground.SrcRect.top = game.streetBackground.SrcRect.top + 1 '4dip ' Mod (game.streetBackground.Bitmap.Height - 62%y / game.backgroundScale)
            game.streetBackground.SrcRect.Bottom = game.streetBackground.SrcRect.top + 62%y / game.backgroundScale  + 1
         End If
         pauseInterval = pauseInterval + 1

Log("scrY" & game.streetBackground.SrcRect.CenterY )
 game.gv.Invalidate

 

[Erel]

All the changes should be done inside the GameView Tick event. The changes will only be applied after your code is executed and the main thread is free to process the internal message queue.

 

[sterlingy]

This is what I was afraid of. Now I have to figure out how to make that happen.

When my Hero character dies, I want to scroll the screen back to the starting position and it's currently happening in another module. I'm sure I'll figure it out.

-Sterling