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Hi Allanon, Sounds like really interesting and fun project! I nowadays program mostly in 8th programming language which is like Forth on stereoids but have been thinking about fixing my old game framework for Hollywood. The 8th programming language is not really that well suited for games (lack of h...

This small demo with only one moving sprite (the cat) should have more fps. Seems to be an issue of the framework, because for example HollyMan has several moving objects/sprites and runs really smooth with around 20%-24% cpu usage. Ok, the demo has a scrolling playfield but if it doesn't scrolls i...

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@themartian I would like to know how to have an object that rotates around a fixed axis which follow the mouse Not sure, if I understood right... If you need to calculate the angle in a circle (useful, if you want to rotate object towards mouse pointer): x1, y1 ; Center point of the circle x2, y2 ;...

zylesea wrote:I think it would be great if iskeydown and waitkeydown would accept "any" as argument for any key and return the value of the pressed key accordingly.

How would multiple simultaneously pressed down keys get handled? One return value is not enough, you would need a state table.

Bugala wrote: I am right now looking for something like CreateKeyDown, I just dont know by what name to look it for.

Why not just install event handler and handle "OnKeyDown" or/and "OnKeyUp" events?

This throws an error "Wrong operator for this type!" in the console. So it'll only take a string here? What did I do wrong? Error message says it all, you are using "+" operator to concatenate strings (probably due to javascript background). You should be using ".." as...

Is it correct, that if I have a DoubleBuffer display I cannot use MakeButton() to create zones for mouseevents? The regular eventhandler responds to mouse events (if set up to do so). But if I include a MakeButton statement, I am told that - 'A BGPIC needs to be active when calling button functions...

I have added some useful functionality:

- Calculate size of the text rectangle
- Handle clipping
- Center text inside the rectangular area

I have added interpolation...

Could you please test this Windows demo and let me know how it performs on your system. On my old Windows 7 computer it runs really smooth.