@BasicCoder2 Was your generator tool used to draw an outline of the FreeBasic icon horse? No. That was done using an automatic routine that traces around a blob (area of same color). I would like to see the code or an explanation of how the algorithm incremented to the next pixel, especially tracin...

@BasicCoder2 very nice drawing :-) could you post your latest tracer code ? It was traced from a photo and the colors were picked from the photo using the pick color tool of the tracer program. https://i.postimg.cc/mkdBXqJr/bird.png There is no "latest" code as I did a few versions. I wil...

I had never seen the Draw command - cute! "The DRAW statement combines most of the capabilities of the other graphics statements into an object definition language called Graphics Macro Language (GML). A GML command is a single character within a string, optionally followed by one or more argu...

https://nr100.home.xs4all.nl/badidea/tank_game_tut/tutorial_05.html Lol, I should continue with that game some day. But not really a freebasic starting point I think. So your tutorial is over 10 years old! The important part of the tutorial for a beginner who is using Windows and decides to use the...

Have you used any other languages? If not then you need to start at the very beginning to learn the programming concepts common to all computer languages. I use the FBIDE with Windows and Geany with my Raspberry Pi (Linux). https://sourceforge.net/projects/fbide/ You might run your eyes over some of...

cavelamb wrote:@fmx...
Smarty pants.

Although I read that as being meant in a nice way keep in mind it usually means someone who displays intelligence in an annoying way.
fxm has been here for a long time helping people with the FreeBasic language and is much appreciated.

Basiccoder2 - you have done this stuff in the past.[code] Indeed I have however iTomi's question was in the context of object orientated programming which I haven't actually used in any experimental tile game engines where objects are created and deleted. iTomi also says he has given up on tiles an...

Maybe you are just over complicating things? I cannot actually visualize what it is you are trying to do. I didn't know what "fog of war" meant but after a google it appears it means only showing a fixed area around a player?

Very nice. With river2 all I got was large squares appearing and disappearing. It didn't look like the JS version. flame failed to compile, Command executed: "C:\FreeBasic\fbc.exe" "C:\FreeBasic\UEZ\flame.bas" Compiler output: C:\FreeBasic\UEZ\flame.asm: Assembler messages: C:\Fr...

caseih wrote:I'd post an example, but it's pretty off-topic.

No one cares so go for it :)
I would change the subject title however otherwise an interested party might not click it.

I've found something about Python's Command() equivalent here . It's ridiculously complicated. If you think that FreeBasic is slow and wasting memory, then Python definitely not your cup of tea :-) Python may be slow but its libraries, which I think are written in c++, are not. For example I am int...

Basiccoder2, You wrote something about a project regarding the forum, if this is any help, a simple coded way to extract html or text from a web page, I saw it on another site. Thanks dodicat that might come in use some day. On the top bar of this forum you can select Members which gives a list of ...

coderJeff wrote:fun while it lasted...

While you last which may be decades to come :)

python better?...

For some things and some people.
As far as I know Python depends on other people to write libraries (in c++?) to be useful.
Real programmers use c++, Assembler or FreeBASIC :)

No one changed the subject title or created a new thread along with the change in the subject? My assumption is that most FreeBASIC users are old (50+) and BASIC was a first language on the old machines. As they stop programming with FreeBASIC it will fade away as it doesn't provide for the needs of...

... where are the forum members, they are evaporating off into oblivion. Probably coding in other languages. I think a lot of the early members were mainly into writing computer games. I have to use Python or Arduino C++ in some hardware projects even if only to share with other hardware enthusiast...