@paul - Can you explain what you mean by this ( the mutex lock/unlock ): do /' These brackets are needed only if the code path that handles the keys can be reached by more than one thread to ensure atomicity. Otherwise, you can safely omit them. I left them here for documentation purposes. '/ aKey.l...

You might find this abstraction useful Wow, this is great. I will adapt this to what I've got going on with my project. I currently use event over multikey since I noticed some thread here in the forums discussing multikey not being reliably platform transferable. The functions here make sense to m...

Did you, by any chance, toyed with the Abuse level editor? Or its Lisp code? The reason I know of Abuse is because I had a demo of it on my old Macintosh computer back when it first came out. This game provided a keyboard + mouse combination that I'd never encountered before. This combination that ...

School has been keeping me busy and most my updates to this project have been minor. However, this current update is worth mentioning because character movement has been improved to include acceleration and jumping. Now the player can get a feel for character movement. The movement system and physic...

I really like this idea. I can imagine using this for my own project. I need to replace off screen data with incoming data to replace it. I have a similar method in place already for map data but when it gets more complex I'll want something more robust. This makes me think of how the early side scr...

http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d-platformers/ Thanks for sharing this webpage. Having taken a look at it I suppose the structure I'm going for is a combination of Smooth Tile Based with hit boxes like in MegaMan and Vectorial like in Braid. Looks like the secon...

- You write WASD, but the control are still the left/right keys. No jumping yet :-( Haha, yeah this demo is lacking a few important things like proper keyboard handling and character movement. Those are next on the list. Jumping will most definitely be an important part of that. I want to make an e...

Greetings, I've been chipping away at a bare bones 2d platformer engine. The aim of this engine is to use horizontal tiled polygons instead of the more traditional tiled grid approach. I want to build this engine around responsive and enjoyable player movement using WASD + mouse control. Combat woul...

The purpose of this example is to demonstrate tile based graphics with unfiltered upscale to larger resolutions. Unfiltered upscale means that larger resolutions preserve the pixelated appearance of the source image buffer workspace. The source image buffer that is our workspace in this example is 3...

This project is a simple custom font framework with a demonstration that loads a low resolution map and hacks it into a spinning globe with lighting. Beware this is a crude hack =) The dropbox link includes maps for Earth, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and others that can be changed in the planet.bi file....

fxm wrote:I added these commands in the example of the COMMON documentation page:
KeyPgCommon → fxm [Added compilation/execution command for the example]

Much thanks for clearing this up!

What exactly do you mean by "compile to separate modules?"

I just looked up namespace in the FreeBasic help document and I'm sorry I hadn't come across it before. However, I don't feel any of this provides a correct example for using common shared unless the intention was to persuade anyone from using that. I can't get the common examples from the FreeBasic...

I think your approach leads to cleaner and better organization. I'm sure I learned some bad habits from my high school days learning VB 6.

I was having this problem with my own code and in searching for an explanation I came across this recent post. Here is a simple solution by placing shared ival before #include as well as removing it from test2.bas : Commontest.bas dim shared ival as long = 10 #include "test2.bas" print myt...