I finished the game. I have included many elements that I have not used before. For example, shading. This has slowed down games a lot so far, so I used to create separate textures for different distances. Here, however, the translucent shadow is drawn over the texture.

Lots of physics, interactions between objects, subtle movements. (not piecemeal, but transitional)

The best innovation is the automatic FPS setting. In the past, I usually set the image refresh rate to 20-25-30 so that it would run well even on weaker computers. It is noticeable and can be confusing. Here, however, I used it to adapt the image update to the speed of the machine. On a faster machine, it can go up to 60-100 FPS, which makes the animation very soft and fluid.

I cover this so that even those who don't play 3D games can understand it. Let's say I want to move a point from one side of the screen to the other. There is strictly 1 minute available for this. What should be its velocity vector? It depends on how wide the window is, and it also depends on how many times I want to interrupt the operation. The more times we interrupt, the more we see beautiful animation. If we break it a few times, it will be lumpy.
The automatic fps adjuster continuously monitors whether interruptions have been completed at the current FPS during a specified measurement time. If not, it means the machine is slow, so at that fps the whole game will stutter and become unenjoyable, so set it lower. On the other hand, if our computer is fast, we will perceive a wonderful display. All of this unnoticed, because in the game the speeds are constantly set to this. So it makes the most of the computer's performance (it tries not to leave any 'rest time'), and in return very nice animation takes place.

I would like a challenge. I divided the CHALLENGE into 12 tracks! Completing one is more difficult and exciting. I would like you to try it, and if everyone succeeds in posting the puzzle picture!

The game contains 2 pieces of BAS! One is in dm_start and the other is in the need/game_exe folder!
download:

https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=686
corrections:
in principle, it also runs on Linux, it uses the appropriate per-signal

advices:
if possible, no windows or browsers should be running, so you can enjoy the game at the highest fps
the bigger the water, the slower you walk in it. if you jump, run away, you go faster
if the water is already overflowing, you can get air by jumping

I came upon this in Help. I like what it does, but don't get how it works. How do the CHR$(&H0)s and CHR$(&HEF)s create the string pattern to be filled? I understand the &H definition in Help is hex base 16 format, but that's as far as I go... Thanks!

DIM Row$(1 TO 8)
SCREEN 12

'make red-brick wall
Row$(1) = CHR$(&H0) + CHR$(&H0) + CHR$(&HFE) + CHR$(&HFE)
Row$(2) = Row$(1)
Row$(3) = Row$(1)
Row$(4) = CHR$(&H0) + CHR$(&H0) + CHR$(&H0) + CHR$(&H0)
Row$(5) = CHR$(&H0) + CHR$(&H0) + CHR$(&HEF) + CHR$(&HEF)
Row$(6) = Row$(5)
Row$(7) = Row$(5)
Row$(8) = Row$(4)
Tile$ = Row$(1) + Row$(2) + Row$(3) + Row$(4) + Row$(5) + Row$(6) + Row$(7) + Row$(8)

LINE (59, 124)-(581, 336), 14, B 'yellow box border to paint inside
PAINT (320, 240), Tile$, 14 'paints brick tiles within yellow border

This is an animated GIF player library written purely in QB64-PE.

I was kind of annoyed and frustrated with the issues in the animated GIF library implementation we have listed in the wiki. Unfortunately, InForm's GIF support is derived from the same code, and it suffers from the same limitations and issues. Basically, it does not support frame local color tables and does not correctly support all of GIF's frame disposal methods. So, I set out to write an animated GIF library that can work standalone and also with InForm-PE.

The latest version of the library will always be a part of InForm-PE. You can find the code inside InForm-PE/InForm/extensions.

I am also attaching a standalone zip file here. This zip file contains just the GIFPlay library, demo and its dependencies.

Library documentation is here: https://github.com/a740g/InForm-PE/blob/...GIFPlay.md

You'll find some other useful (?) stuff in the InForm/extensions directory. 

Cheers!

Attached Files

  GIFPlay.zip (Size: 1.81 MB / Downloads: 81)

Howdy. While this chunk of my game runs fine in QB64pe v. 3.6.0, in versions 3.8.0 and up it crashes upon touching an input key. Attached is the source code, associated files and the error report, per instructions from SMcNeill. I hope a Mac guru can help me/us out with this! Thanks vm, Ted 

So I know a while back I had mentioned how the Save As dialog was still pulling in the default style even with the GUI dialogs option checked... Well, it got fixed for when picking it from the dropdown menu but NOT when pressing CTRL+S on an Untitled* file. Pressing CTRL+S still pops up the old dialog.

QB64PE was mentioned in the comments section in a Slashdot article about BBCBasic.

It was mostly complimentary.

Interesting how several commenters don't realize that many Basics have not required line numbers for decades.

CONST Testing = 0



RMDIR_Recursive "Z:\"



SUB RMDIR_Recursive (Dir$)

    IF RIGHT$(Dir$, 1) = "\" OR RIGHT$(Dir$, 1) = "/" THEN Dir$ = LEFT$(Dir$, LEN(Dir$) - 1)

    IF _DIREXISTS(Dir$) = 0 THEN EXIT SUB

    REDIM FileList(0) AS STRING

    GetFileList Dir$, FileList()

    FOR i = 1 TO UBOUND(FileList)

        IF FileList(i) <> "." AND FileList(i) <> ".." THEN

            $IF WIN THEN

                file$ = Dir$ + "\" + FileList(i)

            $ELSE

                    file$ = Dir$ + "/" + FileList(i)

            $END IF 

            IF _FILEEXISTS(file$) THEN

                IF Testing THEN PRINT "DEL "; file$ ELSE KILL file$

            ELSEIF _DIREXISTS(file$) THEN

                RMDIR_Recursive file$

            END IF

        END IF

    NEXT

    IF LEN(Dir$) > 3 THEN

        IF Testing THEN PRINT "RD "; Dir$ ELSE RMDIR Dir$

    END IF

END SUB





SUB GetFileList (SearchDirectory AS STRING, FileList() AS STRING)

    DECLARE CUSTOMTYPE LIBRARY ".\direntry"

        FUNCTION load_dir& (s AS STRING)

        FUNCTION has_next_entry& ()

        SUB close_dir ()

        SUB get_next_entry (s AS STRING, flags AS LONG, file_size AS LONG)

    END DECLARE



    DIM flags AS LONG, file_size AS LONG



    REDIM _PRESERVE FileList(1000)

    FileCount = 0



    IF load_dir(SearchDirectory) THEN

        DO

            length = has_next_entry

            IF length > -1 THEN

                nam$ = SPACE$(length)

                get_next_entry nam$, flags, file_size

                FileCount = FileCount + 1

                IF FileCount > UBOUND(FileList) THEN REDIM _PRESERVE FileList(UBOUND(FileList) + 100)

                FileList(FileCount) = nam$

            END IF

        LOOP UNTIL length = -1

        close_dir

    ELSE

    END IF

    REDIM _PRESERVE FileList(FileCount)

END SUB

Attached Files

  direntry.h (Size: 1.15 KB / Downloads: 29)

Hi,

I have recently been able to Kill Filename$ but I would like a function to Kill Directory$

I know in Command.com and Cmd.exe the DEL command has /S to delete all subdirectories but Dosbox-X does not..

Or could a batch file do it??

Erik.

I want to create a chart that visually demonstrates the effects of various activities on a main event. For example if the main event is Forest Fire and the activities are temperature, wind speed, precipitation and density, what kind of chart would you use to display all this information. I've been looking at bar charts, pie charts and a scatter charts but none of them appeal to me. Do you guys use charts and if so would you recommend it?