multiple modules & sdl

irrit8or · Post by **irrit8or** » May 27, 2005 13:20

hi,

i have multiple module (.bas files) open in fbide 0.4 with fb 0.14.

certain modules like draw the mouse, animation etc..

how should i go about initializng sdl, blitiing, etc..
currently i run into many error & craches passing pointers & stuff around...

thanx

Shadowwolf · Post by **Shadowwolf** » May 27, 2005 14:39

need more detail in what wrong.

this most likely won't help much but you should init sdl at your entry point model.

Post by **v1ctor** » May 27, 2005 20:13

Well, you need a main module, that will call the functions on each module to do the initializations.

FB will make the first .bas file passed to command line the main module.

Try not use inter-module global vars and arrays, but if they are really needed, use COMMON to share them.

Always use OPTION EXPLICIT on each source file, any typo on a global var and things can start to not work.

Don't put dynamic arrays in module level (outside functions) if it's not the main module, the arrays will never be allocated (as in QB). If you have global dynamic arrays, declare them as "dim shared myarray() as sometype" in the module level and allocate the array inside an Init or so function using "redim myarray(lower to upper)" etc.

1000101 · Post by **1000101** » Jan 02, 2008 15:56

*bump*

Mysoft · Post by **Mysoft** » Jan 03, 2008 1:18

why fb 0.14?

Post by **counting_pine** » Jan 03, 2008 1:31

It was probably the best version available at the time the post was written. Why it's been bumped now is anyone's guess...

notthecheatr · Post by **notthecheatr** » Jan 03, 2008 1:43

Maybe he just bumped it to be random.

Mysoft · Post by **Mysoft** » Jan 03, 2008 2:10

ha... i forget to check the date ;P

Post by **v1ctor** » Jan 03, 2008 22:26

And the last paragraph i wrote doesn't apply anymore (since v0.15). Anything in module-level of other modules than main will be executed - thanks to the magic global constructors.