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@Bugala you will surely have fun, I have in mind a lot of nice things, but mainly I would like to introduce Hollywood and its potential to as many people as possible
Existing Hollywood coders could get some inspiration joining to this journey

Hello all! I've started a series of articles where I will explain how I am approaching the design of a dungeon crawler entirely programmed using Hollywood, if you are interested this is the link of the first article I'll start from the ground with the game design discussion, implementation options, ...

Hi!
I've several free libraries & projects for Hollywood you can download and inspect the source code, here are my links:

My Wiki with downloads & documentation
My Website/Blog
My Patreon page
A thread here on Hollywood forums with almost all my stuff

Happy coding!

Hello! For those interested I've released the new version of my Helpers library (v1.6), you can download for free. A screenshot of one of the provided examples https://i1.wp.com/www.a-mc.biz/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Examples_BufferedStrings.jpg LINKS - In depth description of the library ( part 1 ...

I've found what I've done previously in an old project (file date says 2012!! Wow!!)
I've used the cmd.exe command like you have suggested in a shell script

Thank you for the tip!

Hello, I have this issue on WIndows 10 + Hollywood 8: I'm trying to execute an external program and redirect the output to a file, the built command string works fine if I run it from the shell directly but for some reasons using the Execute() command does not produce any output. During my tests I'v...

Great news!
Thank you for you hard work!

I agree with jPV, you can define an are of your display : you can clear it with the Box() command and update it with the TextOut(). An alternative method I've used in some project is to update the fps counter into a brush: you create a brush, use the SelectBrush() / EndSelect to clear an put your te...

Hi guys, I've noticed only now this thread! Sorry! :D Yes, I've a written JSON parser to decode server answers for a project but I've not published it yet because the code is dirty, no comments at all, but it works fine. If someone is interested I can publish it as is, it returns an Hollywood table ...

If you encrypt zipped files I suggest to do not store the password in clear in your code, use a function to decode the stored pwd and then use it to decrypt your data, also do not store the password in variable names like "pwd" or "pass" or "password" so that it can be harder to find the pwd assignm...