Alternatively you could access the file via OPEN and INPUT at runtime, but then you'd have to do the parsing by yourself.

I consider it a bit overdone to turf MrSwiss out of the forum. From his behaviour I assume that he's an autist and not really able to understand why his fellow human beings feel offended by his well-intended hints. Just my personal opinion.

IMHO the (mis-)use of an image is still the simpler solution. When using a tiles array instead of pointers (a silly idea, I confess), if there are not more than 255 different tiles, the colour depth can be reduced to 8 bits. That means a memory usage of 11kB for a 100 x 100 fields board. Furthermore...

Edit: I was wrong, the map is not limited, but there is a bug. Fixed. Another ideas that just popped up, is to work with a 'list of rows'. That would mean a dynamic array of dynamic arrays (of different sizes). It's possible, but quite complicated. And I have no clue if the resizing works flawless....

The other big problem is trying to understand 2000 lines of code and then figure out what I can use. Understandable. *grin* After rethinking the problem I would suggest another approach. FB already has a built-in 2D map with all necessary tools which work mighty fine: The image and graphics stateme...

Flowchart part 2: Function parse(flag As Integer) As String If flag = 0 Then Return parse(, Chr(0)) 'rest des strings zurückgeben EndIf End Function Function parse(satz As String = "", trenner As String = "") As String Static As String s, t, r Static As Integer a, e If trenner = ...

After firstly reading the rules of "Carcassonne" (a very interesting game, IMHO) I think I understand now what you have in mind. It reminds me of a flowchart editor I wrote some years ago, and some of its features are exactly what you're looking for. It's completely in german, sorry for th...

From my experience, libVLC is the jack-of-all-trades-device for media purposes. Some time ago I wrote this little snippet for Windows, but it should work at Linux, too. Maybe you can find something useful in it: 'Example of a VERY basic media player using libVLC #Inclib "vlccore" #Include ...

Very interesting. With this modified example code you can find out if any of the buttons is recognized at all: ' sdl2 gamepad lib based on FreeBASIC-1.07.2-gcc-5.2 #Include "SDL2/SDL.bi" If (Not SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING) = 0) Then Print "SDL_init(SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK) error! " &...

thrive4 wrote:...so it's hard to tell if adding the guide button (xinput) is feasible...

It's quite easy to find out. Run the example code from the documentation, maybe replace with then press the guide button and look if something happens.

This project seems to have a lot of dependencies. The more I download the more errors I get, including "Duplicated definition". To me it seems to be quite chaotic.

Alright, is it this what you wanted? shape.bi #Pragma Once Type Shape As Integer x As Integer y End Type Declare Sub Shape_ctor(me As Shape Const Ptr, ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer) Declare Sub Shape_moveby(me As Shape Const Ptr, ByVal dx As Integer, ByVal dy As Integer) Declare Function Sh...

What is the point of this, my friend? Shape_ctor is used to emulate a constructor, you set it to print the value of the attributes into the screen so it's useless! My intention was to show how the Const keyword works in FB. And because your shape.bi isn't available here, I wrote that litte example ...

To protect the pointer the Const has to be put before the Ptr : Type shape x As Short '/* x-coordinate of Shape's position */ y As Short ' /* y-coordinate of Shape's position */ End Type Declare Sub Shape_ctor(ByVal me As Shape Const Ptr, ByVal x As Short, ByVal y As Short) Dim As Shape s1, s2 Shape...

...but it's not doing anything on the clipboard when I try it on a windows machine... Here (with WinXP and GIMP) it works. Once having run dodicat's snippet I can copy the picture (or is it a graphic?) to a GIMP sheet by pressing "Ctrl + v". For reading/writing text I usually use these tw...