DirectX 9 "Loading textures" progress bar

Question

It doesn't need to look like a progress bar.
All I need it to say is "Loading images..." while the texture is loading, then saying "Done" when it's done loading.

I have no idea, how to do it?

Answer 1

I've done something like this in a DirectX application I was working on.

The idea behind it is to use the D3DXSPRITE interface to draw text to the screen. Begin drawing the scene with the Direct3D device, begin drawing with the sprite, call the sprite's DrawText function, and then end the sprite and the device scene.

NOTE: This requires that your Direct3D device and sprite be initialized before you start loading textures.

The way I did it was that I had a stack of Dialog/Popup objects that I drew to the screen every time my redraw function was called, so before I loaded the textures, I added a Dialog with the loading message, redrew the screen, then started loading, and then replaced/modified the dialog with the "Done!" message, and redrew again.

Hope it helps!