I use WinApi routines to load icons. If I request a resolution of, say 80x80, and there is an icon with size 256x256 available, then Windows does a pretty poor job of downscaling the images. I didn't bother trying to find a way to make Windows improve the quality (in case there is one) but had some ...

@Tourist Trap: Is there a reason you can't use a global variable to store the file number you used? If it's the case that your program is going to be opening files in an unpredictable way, there are a number of ways of dealing with this. Perhaps you could clarify? In fact I'm just pointing out the ...

Perhaps I misunderstood what was written above but the following seems dangerous: open ... as #freeFile() dim as long ff = freeFile()-1 close #ff As far as I'm aware, internally, there is an array of file handles. freeFile simply returns the smallest index into the array with an empty cell. So you c...

At last have an implementation which is OK ;-) It still doesn't account for all possibilities but I'll leave it for now: Sometimes icons don't specify the used colour depth. I could try to use external libraries to determine the colour depth (I don't want to do that) or look at the image format spec...

EDIT: Previous answer was incomplete.

System: Win7, 64-bit

FBC 64-bit (1.05.0): No problem here as well. Also the sound plays in sync.
FBC 32-bit (1.05.0): No video here. Sounds plays well. One video flickers -- looks like a race condition --> dkl's answer.

To all reading this: Do you prefer to write loop until cbool(unique = true) andalso (in <> "") since it implies that unique is a boolean variable? Or rather the following which is shorter (and requires no cbool() ): loop until unique andAlso (in <> "") I would probably rename uni...

pros versus cons pros = Maximum speed in BASIC cons = The beauty of the algorithm are gone. Joshy #ifndef __ALINE_BI__ #define __ALINE_BI__ #define RGB16(r,g,b) ((r and &B11111000) shl 9) or ((g and &B11111100) shl 4) or ((b and &B11111000) shr 3) #macro aLine(_type_,_shift_,_px0_,_py0_...

Yes, including windows.bi beforehand works. So basically the problems boils down to that isn't allowed.

Hi, I'm trying to convert an icon, retrieved by extractIconEx() , to an FB.Image. However I cannot find an easy way of determining if the icon is 32-bit or lower. If the icon is lower than 32-bit, then the alpha channel is zero. If displayed with put (x,y),img,alpha , you won't see anything. Thus I ...

Interesting. Although it seems like a dangerous coding style. A compiler flag disallowing such behaviour would be nice.
Thanks for clearing this up fxm.

Thanks fxm!

Really cool what can be done with just a few hundred lines of code! Joshy's code: I get a solid 60 fps (minimum 58 fps) on a (mobile) Nvidia GTX860M. On the Intel processor integrated HD Graphics 4600 I get a minimum of 10 fps, a maximum of 25 fps and an estimated median of 12 fps (other stuff, e.g....

Hi, I don't see why the following doesn't work (FB 64-bit on 64-bit Win7 using "-w pedantic -exx -g"): dim as string ptr x = callocate(1,sizeof(string)) if x <> 0 then x[0] = "a" for i as integer = 2 to 10 x = reallocate(x,i*sizeof(string)) if x <> 0 then x[i-1] = "b" n...

With 64-bit and the code #include once "win\gdiplus.bi" I get lots of errors of the type Symbols defined inside namespaces cannot be removed. If I use the following code, #ifdef __FB_64BIT__ #inclib "gdiplus" #include "win\gdiplus-c.bi" #else #include once "win\gdi...

Hi, is the following supposed to be allowed? sub test(byref x as integer) print x for i as integer = 0 to 0 dim as integer x = 4 print x next i if x = 3 then dim as integer x = 4 print x end if print x end sub dim as integer x = 3 test(x) sleep