(I think there are other procedures of the form 'fb_xxx' which are directly accessible but not documented because not really necessary for the user). Sorry but I beg to differ, on the statement: "... because not really necessary for the user". I prefer my own judgement when it com...

How do I install a Library to FBIDE? Sorry, but the question is 'all wrong'. Libraries are installed into the Compiler-Tree (FBC's file structure) and not any IDE. E.g.: you have FBC (64 bit) in C:\FreeBASIC\fbc.exe (and more files) then Libraries go to C:\FreeBASIC\lib\win64\ (..\win32\ for 32 bit...

@crylex, welcome to the forum.

All external libraries must be downloaded seperately from fbc's distribution.
Only the necessary .bi files (basic include) are part of the distribution itself.
(indepedent of static (*.a) or dynamic (*.dll/*.so))

Sorry fxm, the question is to coderJeff (and/or developers) ...

Speaking of arrays... There was something that had to be fixed with ERASE and arrays passed to procedures. I can't find the test case, and I don't think it was logged as a bug report. This was one of the reasons we changed the internal array descriptor, but I don't think this change was ever made. ...

If you are having type definition in a .bi and type initialization in another .bi then the order in which the .bi's are included becomes important (otherwise error). I don't understand the 'Editor claim' with 'autocomplete' at all. You have to supply the code that initializes the type (or type array...

Sorry, but the supplied information is just to skimpy (not enough) to make sense.
All those type definitions are currently unknown ... ctor/dtor/operators e.t.c.

fzabkar wrote:There are many times when I wish to Get a binary String which contains 0x00 characters.

FB's String (a type in fact) is the only one that allowes Chr(0) inside the string data (also Null terminated).
ZString and/or WString cannot accept Chr(0) because it is treated as terminator.

The way you are going about it is a 'stony road' (the Any Ptr, that is). If you use a UDT Ptr instead, things become quite simple: ' static initialized type (for this DEMO only!) Type UDT_t ' size FBC64 = 32, FBC32 = 20 As ULong id = 1 As ULong slen = 4 As String info = "test" End Type Typ...

I was wondering whether separate lines, or the numerical order of the constants, affected the optimisation of the jump table. No, it doesn't. Since you'll not know which constant is called the most. The jump table itself optimizes the Select Case [As Const] statement. BTW: max. size of jumptable is...

What about this? More than one 'case' on the same line: Select Case As Const bfilptr[i] Case 10, 32, 46 ' do nothing Case 35 : bfilptr[i] = 59 Case 48 To 64 : bfilptr[i] -= 6 Case 65 : bfilptr[i] = 32 Case 66 : bfilptr[i] = 63 Case 99 To 255 : bfilptr[i] -= 5 Case Else : bfilptr[i] -= 9 End Select

@Joshy, thanks for the link it's certainly a interesting read (latest version 2019).

B.Widynski mentions it as a 'source of inspiration' to make SquaresRNG among other authors.
He claims that Squares is about twice as fast as Philox (part of 'random123' lib).

Found this brand new PRNG from Bernard Widynski, published 2020-05-04 (second version). Translated it to FB ... original code below: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Squares: A Fast Counter-Based RNG by Bernard Widynski, 2020-05-04 PDF download and more ... : https:/...

IvanisIvan wrote:Thank you! Do you know if any library exists?

No, not straight away.
Some guys here, manage 3D look-alikes with the 2D libraries, too.
(Search: Tips & Tricks section for examples)

See FB-Manual/Programmers Manual -- OOP: https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/ProPgObjectRtti

Built-in FBGFX is 2D only, you'll probably need a external lib for true 3D.