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This means I can't use Sprites in Threads, right ? (Tell me if not)

So here is the new version, but I get flicker. How can I get rid of it ? Are OpenWindowedScreen() and FlipBuffers() relevant in this "Images and 2DDrawing" case ? Or is it possible to Sync my drawing thread ?
EnableExplicit ...

I love "*b.BYTE, *c.Character" declaration and *c\c and *b\b usage but didn't know about it. The role is obvious here but is there a place I should read to learn more about it ?

Isn't "Task Scheduler" a better tool for this ?

Hi there,

Based on this topic on the french forum , itself based on the Help example code for "OpenWindowedScreen()" , I wrote this :

; Program Name : Sprite V4.pb
EnableExplicit
UsePNGImageDecoder()

Enumeration Windows
#MainWindow
EndEnumeration

Enumeration Sprite
#BallSprite
EndEnumeration ...

@wombat : of course it doesn't output "Hi there" but that's not the point here. AFAI understand Martt's point, if the first term of an AND statement in a CompilerIf evaluates as False, the second term shouldn't raise an error at compile time because of Short-circuit_evaluation . But it does here as ...

Thanks StarBootics, "ProgramFilename()" is exactly what I was looking for !

I wasn't searching in the appropriate Help section ('FileSystem' instead of 'Process')... I should have been because I already used "ProgramParameter([Index])"...

Thanks again

Hi there,

Is there a way for a running program to know its own path and name ? The equivalent of the C language "argv[0]" value...
Thanks (in advance )

You' re probably right about the virus scanner. Avast is not very friendly with PureBasic... I'll see what I can do...
Thanks for the support

Hi there,

I'm using PureBasic 5.72 on a W7x64 machine. As a beginner, I take (clipboard text copy) sample programs here and there and paste them in a new tab in my PB 5.72 Editor. Then I hit F5 to debug them but if the program hasn't been saved first (hence given/giving a filename), the compiler ...