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papiosaur wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 6:26 pm What i must do when i use filetostring() command, how to know when the conversion is finalized please?

No need to do anything, the script halts until a file is read in a string and continues to the next command when it's done.

WaitKeyDown() halts the script execution and waits until you press the correct key. So in this case you have to press the keys in exact order to get forward, and you can't start and stop music without pausing it in between. What you need is to listen key presses in the event handling function, just ...

Unfortunately ReportChanges=True for the MonitorDirectory() does only work on Windows and OS4, AFAIK. At least it fails on MorphOS, which papiosaur uses I guess. Here are my two more options :) If doing purely with Hollywood and don't want to use the looping solution, something like this with the Mo...

copyfile("DH1:Empty_WBPattern.prefs", "ENV:Sys/WBPattern.prefs") ; write-error Remember that you have to give a directory as the destination for the CopyFile() function, not a file name. Now it probably tries to access/create a "WBPattern.prefs/" directory but fails be...

I use Cls() because I did a star field moving in background. Is it really better to clear only the "old" pixels even from starfield instead of using Cls()? It might depend how full of stars it is, but most likely it's better to avoid Cls() still. You'll see the definite answer when you me...

Well.. this isn't anywhere near perfect, but more like a quick proof of concept how to optimize it somehow. Here we have characters as brushes and only render visible ones, and won't clear the whole screen, but just the previous characters. Sin/cos doesn't look like the same etc. but it's just a qui...

Just some quick notes without testing etc. You'll have to remember that a real Amiga (I assume you mean an Amiga with 68k CPU and slow graphics throughput) is from a whole different world compared to a modern PC, and such an Amiga has a hard time outputting fullscreen chunky graphics at good framera...

Check your Y calculations, I think your Y values jump wildly and makes it look flickering when it technically doesn't flicker (try with a steady Y value).

Another option would be to convert the output as listview entries

I am NOT lazy or ignorant about my code, I am a beginner as it was clear posting in the newbie questions, and to state it's not difficult to make some basic planning and how logical it is, was unkind and rude. We ALL have to start somewhere and there is no reason to be so discouraging about someone...