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- Oct 04, 2017 12:30
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Most important concepts to learn for a new developer (Top 50)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5888
Most important concepts to learn for a new developer (Top 50)
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 ...
- Sep 25, 2017 16:42
- Forum: General
- Topic: Find the best 8 bit palette for an RGB image
- Replies: 67
- Views: 8700
Re: Find the best 8 bit palette for an RGB image
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
-Vince
- Sep 25, 2017 15:02
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: ScreenRes - more info needed [SOLVED]
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2862
Re: ScreenRes - more info needed
Check out the ScreenControl function.
-Vince
-Vince
- Sep 21, 2017 12:34
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Help using On...Goto and Select Case and SUB needed [SOLVED]
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2116
Re: Help using On...Goto and Select Case and SUB needed
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
-Vince
- Jul 21, 2017 2:41
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Speed issues with my game
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4362
Re: Speed issues with my game
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...
- Jul 21, 2017 2:19
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Speed issues with my game
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4362
Re: Speed issues with my game
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...
- Jul 05, 2017 3:15
- Forum: General
- Topic: Opportunity to make some Cash
- Replies: 70
- Views: 7908
Re: Opportunity to make some Cash
I guess the real question is, why not just replace the stone-age PC-HW with a $35 Raspberry pi?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")
-V
- Jul 03, 2017 19:58
- Forum: General
- Topic: Opportunity to make some Cash
- Replies: 70
- Views: 7908
Re: Opportunity to make some Cash
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. ...
- Jul 03, 2017 14:02
- Forum: General
- Topic: Opportunity to make some Cash
- Replies: 70
- Views: 7908
Re: Opportunity to make some Cash
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
Nothing against FB. Just seems like the right tool for the job.
-Vince
- Jul 03, 2017 13:52
- Forum: Sources, Examples, Tips and Tricks
- Topic: A simple emulator
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2117
Re: A simple emulator
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
-Vince
- Jun 08, 2017 19:31
- Forum: General
- Topic: How to use Arrays In FreeBASIC
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3518
Re: How to use Arrays In FreeBASIC
This isn't an array. It looks like you are using a Listbox control. They are 2 very different things.
-Vince
-Vince
- Jun 06, 2017 18:49
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Always on top
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1951
Re: Always on top
#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
- Jun 05, 2017 15:44
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Always on top
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1951
Re: Always on top
Here is a start for your wish list. This will get the screen coordinates of the mouse whether inside or outside of the program windowvdecampo wrote:Yes
Code: Select all
#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)
- Jun 05, 2017 15:19
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Always on top
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1951
- Jun 05, 2017 15:17
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: A new section for FreeBasic on The Joyful Programmers forum
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8185
Re: A new section for FreeBasic on The Joyful Programmers forum
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...