PureBasic Forums - English

I know the thread is getting old, but it's still on the first page and this forum is not very active so I'll call it game.

There is still a need for this sort of book. The original Programming 2D Scrolling Games book is nice, but the PB language has been updated so many times since it was written ...

I just bought Kale's book too and I like it a lot. Some of the things I did not understand how to use before (eg: structures, arrays) were made clear to me after reading.

That last test you posted seems to have done the trick.

In case you are interested:

I did experience a crashing / weird issue with the "purecolor / pb4" function, but I haven't figured out a way to make the crash appear on command. That also happens in the test you sent, but I had similar issues ...

I sent a description to your e-mail and also sent an attachment of my UI.

Thanks!

I'm sorry it took me so long to get back here. I was without power for a long while due to an ice storm.

I tested the version you posted to the forum. It seems to fix the problem I was having, but unfortunately makes a new one elsewhere.

On the test version I can move between gadgets by clicking ...

I like this tool and am using it quite a bit.

However, I find that sometimes when I try to change the font size in a string gadget Pureform crashes.

I sometimes get this error message, but not always.

Pureform has crashed [Error = c0000005]
'An attempted read or write to/from an address to which ...

Oh. Sorry. It is fixed now. You should now be able to copy and paste the source from my original message.

Hi. I am new to this language so this is probably a mess.

I liked the word wrap procedure so I tried to improve it (and update it for PB4). Hopefully there are not too many mistakes.

Edit: I turned off html for this post. Now the code should be copy/paste-able.


; updated for pb4
; added ...

I have some RPG tiles on my website that you guys can use for free.

http://www.lostdragon.com/tiles/db-bmp-tiles.zip

They would be good for an Ultima-like or rogue-like game.