Personal preference is: short-cut operators (speed). However, can also be done without (the binary operators) but, with more code to get close, e.g.: If (cond1) Then If (cond2) Then If (cond3) Then If (cond4) Then ... End If End If End If End If With the short-cut operators: If (cond1) AndAlso (con...

My main preference when coding is to use the bitwise operators (such as OR, AND). However I am also aware of the short-circuit "equivalents" (i.e. ORELSE, ANDALSO), and after some reflection, I'm not too sure why the bitwise operators would be used in their LOGICAL uses (i.e. if x > 5 and ...

Hi datwill310, obviously you try to assign certain keystrokes to actions in your game. As a general driver cannot "know" all KB layouts (and the corresponding return codes) I suggest to let the user define which keyboard hits should be assigned to these actions. I had seen this kind of &q...

TeeEmCee wrote:Looking closer, I see this is really complicated.

This IS complicated o_O. I want to thank you for doing this.

TeeEmCee wrote:Could you check which driver is in use?

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' (Whatever 'screen' command)
dim driver as string
screeninfo  , , , , , , driver
?driver

I've not actually put it in the game code, but I've initialised the same screen mode with the same settings and am using DirectX.

There is surely a utility somewhere (I could provide one if needed) which prints out information about win32 keypress events as they occur. If you posted the output of that we could look at it and try to figure out why it's happening. I have used the software at delphiforfun.org and have found the ...

Are you using Windows? There is surely a utility somewhere (I could provide one if needed) which prints out information about win32 keypress events as they occur. If you posted the output of that we could look at it and try to figure out why it's happening. Yes, I am using Windows. I will look for ...

Thanks for your post. I was able to trigger the "hello!" event using both B and FN+F11. This is an image of the keyboard I am using (I don't think it's the exact model but it's close enough): https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41tOpUYZKHL.jpg In between the Alt Gr and Menu ke...

In the game I'm making, I've noticed a strange behaviour with my keyboard where if I hold the Function key and F11 (on my keyboard it turns up volume), it acts as a B key press in my game (I use FBGFX, multikey, and the scancodes). Is this a bug with the library or my game that I should look out for...

so many perspectives of collision code appear from a persons own take on it, its amazing the spin offs of code that come from them. There is SO much to learn no matter how much you know!!! and just looking at other peoples code you can learn so much!!! I posted a topic in this forum i believe almos...

thesanman112 wrote:WHAT!!! Man oh man, it doesn't matter how hard you work you just cant satisfy some people...LOL!!!

Yes I'll give credit you too ;)!

First quick try I'd make: define them all as Long ... Thanks for the pointer: collision works as expected now! lol - hate those stupid 'little things' like datatypes that can give errors 'sometimes'... congrats on you finishing the routine! Yes, so do I! Thanks, I've given credit to you and BasicCo...

EDIT: also forgot to mention, one of my ideas involves the fact that the X and Y values are LONGS, while the WIDTH and HEIGHT values are UNSIGNED LONGS. Could this have something to do with it? First quick try I'd make: define them all as Long ... Thanks for the pointer: collision works as expected...

Hi all, just thought I'd give an update on the collision situation. Thanks to you guys, collision works perfect! With quite a lot of angle measurements, and changing of moving states upon different directions of collision, characters can now land on things, get damaged, bump their heads! Even those ...

Thanks for the help so far! I'll look over each post on this thread as I begin to structure my tutorials. If I were to learn Python, I definitely wouldn't MOVE to Python, buts that's just a personal thing ;D! I'll look at the link you provided (BasicCoder2). And thanks David for your input!