No need. Just open a new thread if you want to discuss a different approach

neil wrote: ↑Nov 07, 2023 21:01 Here's another idea this one works. This will always compress any 8 capital letters down to 5 bytes. No patterns or redundancy are required.

Consider opening your own thread if you're gonna try other methods, so as to not pollute this one, yes?

I might be missing something, but what is wrong with simply doing a cast to get the expected values? screen 2 window(-10,-30)-(-5,-10) line(-9,-28)-(-6,-24) print"Window x-coordinate of the last point=";cast( long, point(2) ) print"Window y-coordinate of the last point=";cast( lo...

Seems to me it is, or it isn't. Your explanation states that it could sometimes be a Literal and sometimes not. This applies not just to &H but to all of the prefixes. Perhaps they should be called that: Prefixes or Type Prefixes. That's what he's telling you: it's a prefix for literals , not f...

... Using Screenlist the output says I can have a screen of 2560 x 1440 ... But it probably doesn't say that it supports it at 320x200x8, right? You can run the code (provided in the example section of the Wiki page for ScreenList ) to see the fullscreen modes available: Dim As Long mode Dim As UIn...

Tolo68 wrote: ↑Aug 18, 2023 16:02 ...
I guess it could, because the GFXLIB library uses this syntax.
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It uses the syntax for compatibility. Why would anybody want to use it willingly baffles me...

Also noticed that you're missing a call to opengl_init() somewhere in your code. Do it after you've set up the context (via screenRes ), like this: '' Set up context screenRes( w, h, d, , Fb.GFX_OPENGL ) '' Load extensions opengl_init() Otherwise the aliases contain just null pointers (hence the cra...

I had some code lying on my HD, that illustrates how you can use Fb.Image buffers with OpenGL: /' Much like the Shader type, this type is used for convenience, to create and store an OpenGL texture object. The format used is directly compatible with FB buffers. '/ type OGLtexture public: declare con...

The context is already created on the call to screenres . Problem is here: dim as GLuint Ptr depth_fbo depth_fbo=ImageCreate(screen_width,screen_height) ' the program crash if i add this line: 'glGenFramebuffers(1,depth_fbo) That's wrong. Fb image buffers are not compatible with those of GL's (they ...

Interesting that it went directly to barycentric coordinates. Perhaps if you ask it for a ray-triangle intersection (3D) it will go for Möller-Trumbore as well?

dafhi wrote: ↑Jul 19, 2023 5:24 paul doe - love that description!

Oh if you love it, then you'll definitely love Herbert's novels. An absolute classic that I thoroughly recommend if you like clever science fiction and awesome characters

Hello: ... Welcome to the forum. As you can see, I have moved your post to this topic, which is where questions about WinFBE are usually resolved. This is because you'll have a better chance for an answer here, since Paul is probably subscribed to this topic and he'll get notifications every time s...

... I want to avoid making a local copy of the string within the subroutine (the string could be 4MB in size), so I'm thinking that I could pass the size and string pointer as parameters rather than the string itself. However, how would I then use Instr to search for text data within the string? I ...

... I need ideas for trade items so if you have any suggestions or know of a good source of information I can use let me know. A good source of ideas could be Frank Herbert's Dune series. There's only one planet in the known universe that has a unique resource: Melange, also known as 'spice', which...

BasicCoder2 wrote: ↑May 31, 2023 0:24 ...
Maybe chatGPT can write some dialog Maybe it can write the whole program
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It is surprisingly good at the first, not that good on the second