This game is for one or two players, who try to find words in a constantly-changing grid of letters. Comments & suggestions welcome. It includes a complete dictionary.

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Another small program that I'd like some advice on... I've called it Alchemy, and it's a game in which you try to transform a word into another related word, one letter at a time. It differs from the usual word-swap games in that you can lengthen or shorten the word as you play. I'd welcome any comments or suggestions on it

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  Alchemy.zip (Size: 3.6 KB / Downloads: 53)

I, for one, have trouble re-locating threads I've visited or subscribed to, and I reckon it would be useful to have a list of the major forums (fora?) at the Portal - after all, a portal is supposed to be the main entry-point to a location.

Apologies for so many questions. Unfortunately, there are just some things I cannot seem to figure out on my own :-)

Let's assume a create a screen like this:

 

I'm so close to having everything working - just a few tiny odds and ends to figure out....

Let's say I open a Windows a screen with QB64 that is 400 x 400 pixels and I start displaying text on the screen with a font size of 12. My calculations say that I should be able to fit 33 lines of text on this screen (33 x 12 pixels = 396 pixels). However, in actuality, I can only fit 32 lines.

Is there something like an invisible "buffer" of a few pixels that cannot be used?

When I use a screen capture utility to capture a copy of my window, I can see that the area inside of the physical screen borders is precisely 400 pixels so I can't quite make sense of what I'm running into.

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Some years ago I wrote a tutorial on this topic for the scripting community of Neverwinter Nights. I have now gone through this and edited it to make it relevant for QB64. As I am new to QB64, I would appreciate it if someone will download it, read it and let me know of any errors that they come across no matter how small. The package contains 2 pdf documents (the readme and the 20 page tutorial), an HTML cheat sheet and a plain text document of pre-calculated constants.

Dropbox Link removed - Download link to newer, more accurate version on page 2 of this thread.

All comments welcome.

Thanks.

TR

I posted earlier about an issue involving font sizes on a screen. I've figured out how I can perform manual calculations, but I need to know the screen scaling factor to make my calculations.

Is there some way that I can ascertain the scaling factor from within QB64?

A simple little image unroller that does an image reveal like a scroll being unrolled. Someone posted an example in a facebook group in their dialect of basic asking if other forms of basic could handle it. So I whipped this up. 

Assume that I am initializing my display like this:

        _FullScreen _Off , _Smooth
        _FreeImage oldimage&
        Font& = _LoadFont(FontPath$, FontSize, "MONOSPACE")
        _Font Font&

Now I write a bunch of text to the screen.

Later, I want to read the character at the upper left of the screen. I tried to do this like this:

print screen(1,1)

or

MyVar$ = CHR$(screen(1,1))

However, I'm getting an illegal function call when the line with screen(1,1) is executed.

Is this only valid with screen mode 0 or am I missing something here?

If this cannot be made to work, is there any other way to read characters from the screen?