I would like to poll the FB community of developers to create a Top 50 list of topics that you think a new developer should learn. This can include simple things like binary and hex numbers to more complex concepts like polymorphism and multi-threading. The goal is to create a curriculum that would ...

I would resample the 888 RGB 24bit to 323 RGB 8Bit. At work right now but I could give it a try this evening.

-Vince

Check out the ScreenControl function.

-Vince

Just remember that the FreeBASIC compiler recognizes symbols as they occur in your source code. If you reference a SUB or FUNCTION or variable before that symbol has been declared, the compiler will treat it as unknown.

-Vince

IIRC FB uses the high resolution timer internally when available so using a double to store a start time could be used for comparisons. Pseudo Code Dim loopStart as Double ' Start Game Loop Do if (Timer-loopStart > .33) Then 'This is 30 FPS 'Process Logic 'Render Screen loopStart = Timer End if Slee...

How are you timing your game loop? Do you allow so many game ticks per second? You can accomplish this most easily by using a timer variable to limit how many passes per second. More accurately you would process your game movement based on the elapsed time for each game tick but this is more involve...

MrSwiss wrote:@Vince,

it isn't exactly helpful, to compare a relatively new SOC (R-Pi), with "stone-age" PC-HW ...
(as comparing Apples and Bananas, while both are "fruit's")

I guess the real question is, why not just replace the stone-age PC-HW with a $35 Raspberry pi?

-V

I've run Linux with the Mono framework on a $35 Raspberry Pi computer with 1Gb RAM and my c# app ran fine (and it was graphic intensive). I would imagine a POS app would run just fine. Many assemblies or DLLs for .NET can be used on Mono. And there is always more than one way to approach a problem. ...

Why not move to Linux and use VB under Mono? Its just like VB.NET, and its free. Depending on how your VB code is written, it may work with little or no modification.

Nothing against FB. Just seems like the right tool for the job.

-Vince

Just so you are aware, your hexconvert function is not necessary. Just use Hex(value,2) to guarantee you get a 2-digit value.

-Vince

This isn't an array. It looks like you are using a Listbox control. They are 2 very different things.

-Vince

#Include "windows.bi" Dim As POINT pt Do If GetCursorPos(@pt) Then Print pt.x, pt.y End If If GetAsyncKeyState(VK_LBUTTON) Then Print "Left Button Pressed" Sleep 100 Loop Until InKey=Chr(27) You can get a list of all the virtual key codes Here -Vince

Yes Here is a start for your wish list. This will get the screen coordinates of the mouse whether inside or outside of the program window #Include "windows.bi" Dim As POINT pt Do If GetCursorPos(@pt) Then Print pt.x, pt.y End If Sleep 100 Loop Until InKey=Chr(27) -Vince

Yes

I was watching some MIT lectures while researching the idea of creating a new programming language and the one key point the professor spoke of was that it would need to have at a minimum, associative arrays as a standard data type. I searched the FB forum and found several discussions of which I w...