Don't let Pete see that. He might like it for a moment, or he could get angry for "cheating" on his SCREEN 0. He might just go and convert all his programs to do the transparency.
Wow in early 16-bit days this is just unheard of. A chance to do it with 320x200 with 256 colors. Maybe somebody wrote a code library for it.
Galleon took the fateful decision to go away from console mode like most other language products, so we could have a SCREEN 0 that is unique. One that is inflexible to some people who would like to have scrollbars for their heavy use of PRINT. One time when I looked over many things in "libqb.cpp" I was trying to find the Win API console commands or something related. "But how is this programming system doing the text-mode screen?" I kept asking. I only saw a bunch of scary bitwise math repeated eight times LOL in the code. Oh yeah but that's for graphics, where's the handling for text?
Try doing that in ordinary "CMD.EXE" box! Maybe that's why many people on Linux are begging for Wayland to take the showing off in terminals to a new level.
Wow in early 16-bit days this is just unheard of. A chance to do it with 320x200 with 256 colors. Maybe somebody wrote a code library for it.
(09-13-2023, 03:14 AM)SMcNeill Wrote: We're in a SCREEN 0, text-only screen mode, and yet we're still displaying and animating a graphical box across the screen pixel by pixel!!
How the BLEEP is that possible??
It's because QB64 has a completely separate and independent hardware layer, than it has for any of the software layers. SCREEN 0 is software. HWscreen is hardware. The two are 100% independent from each other.
Galleon took the fateful decision to go away from console mode like most other language products, so we could have a SCREEN 0 that is unique. One that is inflexible to some people who would like to have scrollbars for their heavy use of PRINT. One time when I looked over many things in "libqb.cpp" I was trying to find the Win API console commands or something related. "But how is this programming system doing the text-mode screen?" I kept asking. I only saw a bunch of scary bitwise math repeated eight times LOL in the code. Oh yeah but that's for graphics, where's the handling for text?
Try doing that in ordinary "CMD.EXE" box! Maybe that's why many people on Linux are begging for Wayland to take the showing off in terminals to a new level.