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I wasn't drawing the image myself, I only used SetGadgetAttribute(canvas, #PB_Canvas_Image, ImageID(img)). Not sure what blitting or copying PB does internally. I looked into my notes of the project and it says that the initial version with those changes wasn't actually faster but a bit slower, so I...

You can speed up some things by using threads. What I did in a project is this (was vectordrawing on a canvas for a game): - when you get the data for drawing, don't draw it directly, but instead collect it in a structured list. For example coordinates, thickness ect. of lines/shapes you want to dra...

'Step Over' is supposed to do exactly that. If you use 'Continue' or just 'Step' it will go into the procedure and/or stop at the breakpoint.
Not sure what F10 is. It opens the window menu here on linux.

It seems to work here [on linux]. I get autocompletion in the last 2 examples when I backspace at the #cons or when I type it new after the brace (

@mk-soft
Your ProcedureReturn values should be swapped?

PB supports only UCS2 unicode without surrogates supports, should be mentioned in the generate string section as basically every function which manipulate string is impacted. Maybe those are surrogate characters? They seem to occupy 4 bytes. s1.s = "🅐A🅚K🅝" s2.s = Left(s1, 1) s3.s = Right(...

Using an online tool gives me 912, and 913 if the end date is included: https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=11&m1=9&y1=2001&d2=11&m2=3&y2=2004 When using floating point conversion we get 911.95.., closer to 912. Debug (1.0*Date(2004,03,11,07,36,00)-Date(2001,0...

Just saw one more thing:
The title in the manual PDF is still set to another game of yours, Sweet Memories.

Hi. Nice to see a finished game. :D I tried it on linux. On Ubuntu 18.04 the glibc version present is too old, so it doesn't run. But it starts fine on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I didn't get to play it though. I explored the menu first. The font size seems to large so the text lines overlap or get cropped...

I think utopiomania is the author of the html editor shown (possibly written in PB), as the About window in the beginning is suggesting.
But I agree, utopiomania could have been less cryptic about it.

It is true that UTF8 has a variable length. But we talk here about the internal representation of a string in Pure Basic, which is "Unicode" or more correct UTF-16, using exact 2 Bytes per each character for the BMP (Basic multilingual plane of unicode). UTF-16 has surrogate pairs too (bu...

Just one more note: zero-initialization will not happen if the variable has been declared already. So make sure you know your code

You can also use search/replace to edit multiple identical lines simultaneously.
- select 'el' of multiple lines with shift alt cursor-keys (on linux)
- replace (cntrl F) 'el' with 'els', check 'search inside selection only'
- 'replace all'
now those lines have 'levels' instead of 'level'.

Well, you get a rectangle selection, but the edit does not work. In column mode i believe you would be able type/edit on all the lines at once.

Yes, that's the one.