I am trying to implement a plugin extension for fbc. I am successfully loading plugins and call init and visitor functions. But where should i put the callback visitor functions in the compiler? I am absolutly lost. I tried in ast-node-proc at the end of: function astAdd( byval n as ASTNODE ptr ) as...

Zstring*31 - that was simple!

Thank you. srvaldez

I would like to Initialise an array but i get: FreeBasic/src/compiler/enumstrings.bi(46) error 86: Var-len strings cannot be initialized in '"AST_CLASSES" }' Dim Shared As String AST_NODECLASS_STR(0 TO ...) = {_ "AST_NODECLASS_NOP",_ "AST_NODECLASS_LOAD",_ "AST_NOD...

Geany works. But you need to use extra libraries like cairo for output. Print and "draw string" dont support unicode.

I wonder, why you would need multithreaded draw routines at all? Normally even big projects use one rendering thread. In Unreal Engine 4 (UE4), the entire renderer operates in its own thread that is a frame or two behind the game thread. Very calculation intensive tasks with much local - almost no s...

I think the problem is that if you have 2 threads, one that erases complete screen and another thread with a sprite moving screenlock / screenunlock does flicker. But what would work are several drawing threads with non intersecting animations, with maybe occasional cls.

i am learning more and more about the vtable design. FBC repository and wikipedia is my friend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_method_table . And there was a nice diagram by fxm. Hope i understood it correctly. Some thought how to implement interfaces with only abstract methods: - we would ne...

How would you implement interfaces when you would write sort of a java parser -> freebasic generator. I would like to write something to automatically translate awt/swing classes and interfaces. I thought to generate fb headers from java source code for public methods and fields and later reimplemen...

Hi,if we compare two codes performing the same task, one coded in the procedural way, and the other with embedding stuff in UDT, it seems obvious that there is some more code lines to produce for a UDT. Well, your example is very simple. Especially when using virtual member functions where the auto...

I know it's a lot of work making a big bundle, with all libraries for various platforms. But lets see. I tried to get a static library of sqlite3 yesterday. It took me one hour to get a working dll.a out of the .def file from the website. It took me several hours to create the static lib. I am not a...

If I remember correctly in QB PDS ISAM(Indexed Sequential Access Method) was introduced for RANDOM files, so that you could actually use theese files like a real database. The index file speeds up the search (reading) at the cost of complexity (lower write speed). You could simulate something like t...

I would like to see some sort of simpler package/namespace management. A "#package ..." statement could automatically insert End Namespace before "#include ..." and "Namespace ..." after includes. What do you think? example code package tld.mydomain.mypackage #Include O...

]LOL! what I mean is that it almost becomes as easy, or easier than making a 2D game and they all seem to opt for 3D thinking it is 'better'... I think it depends upon the game type and what kind of experience you are trying to develop for the player, for instance, RTS games don't generally benefit...

Maybe fbc should show warning/information if executable code is put into .bi file. Just as a hint.

Thanks, sounds very good. I have only a fear, my system has reached its limit in term of resident programs. I'v read carrefully the wikipedia article about GIT but nothing is said about the room it occupies on a system. Have you some info about this? Is it a resident program, does it require extra ...