SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

I have copied Qube's following posting from the locked topic "I've stopped looking at different programming languages.":

QuoteTalking of not looking at other languages, I recently had a quick play with PureBASIC and couldn't even get it to move a handful of sprites about in 2D without juddering Not sure what I was doing wrong or missing but it was a very simple create window, load sprite, move sprites, flip screen. No idea why it wasn't silky smooth so closed the app down and thought feck it.

For a simple demo of animating 256 small sprites without juddering you may try this demo (Example 1) with 94 code lines (including blank lines and comments) from miso. I have just tested it on MacOS 13.7.3 'Ventura' with PB 6.20 x64 Beta 4.

Thankyou for a very nice Demo.

I to have stopped looking at other programming languages. If it wasn't for Blitzmax id probably be using PureBasic.
Im going to try and translate it to BlitzmaxNG

Kind Regards Baggey

I had a bit of juddering and changed the screen resolution which seemed to cure it.

Quote from: Shardik on February 05, 2025, 20:57:18I have copied Qube's following posting from the locked topic "I've stopped looking at different programming languages.":

QuoteTalking of not looking at other languages, I recently had a quick play with PureBASIC and couldn't even get it to move a handful of sprites about in 2D without juddering Not sure what I was doing wrong or missing but it was a very simple create window, load sprite, move sprites, flip screen. No idea why it wasn't silky smooth so closed the app down and thought feck it.

For a simple demo of animating 256 small sprites without juddering you may try this demo (Example 1) with 94 code lines (including blank lines and comments) from miso. I have just tested it on MacOS 13.7.3 'Ventura' with PB 6.20 x64 Beta 4.

Sorry for the delay in replying to this.

Can confirm that this does run super smooth but I've another noob question. How in the flippity flip do you open a fullscreen window with no borders that actually is 'full screen'?. Despite all the flags for borderless and maximise I still have the MacOS dock showing and also the app window title.

I can do it with OpenScreen but I don't want to force a resolution change as that's the ugly old way  

PureBasic is an awesome language you can program pretty much anything in. I have invested about a year and a half in it and at some point in the future I'll try again. I find PureBasic harder to use than AGK but if I had to use it I would get it pretty quickly I should imagine as I know most of what I require. I had some issues when I used it last but I think they have been ironed out with 6.20 and the new Ogre 14.3  .

There is a free version of purebasic so you can try before you buy.