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it needs a delay so any send error can clear on the socket. Most of the time a socket fails to send when you fill the send buffer and it blocks returning -1 and sets the socket error to EAGAIN or WSAWouldBlock
PB doesn't check the socket error to see if you can continue sending, so when you get an ...

DisplayTransparentSprite isn't working properly
sprites now need to be created with #PB_Sprite_AlphaBlending and it breaks compatibility with 6.20 and prior code

test with 6.20 and 6.30



EnableExplicit

#WITHSOUND = 0

CompilerIf #PB_Compiler_Version >= 630
#MPB_Sprite_AlphaBlending = #PB ...

Also something else going on with the drawing modes as DisplayTransparentSprite isn't working properly
sprites now need to be created with #PB_Sprite_AlphaBlending and then it breaks compatibility with 6.20 code

when a function parameter or result variable is a float, the compiler or ide barfs on bit logic & ! | << >>
it shouldn't matter as the evaluation should cast to float as the last step not before cx, cy and ct1 are integers

So this raises an error

DisplayTransparentSprite(spriteNumber,cx-(ct1&2 ...

Always good to see native solutions, thanks for sharing.

I just got used to 2025. Happy coding 2026

MilosPantovic wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2025 10:51 pm @idle

Hi, I have tried your code and got an error.

PureBasic Assembler Error

purebasic.asm[88]

while (pos != end) {

error: missing end directive.

it's for the c backend only, use compiler options and select the c compiler

not sure if the behavior changed or not, though it doesn't exactly match the documentation.
It only work through structures and you still can't drill down into it to get the type of the array, it's not runtime.


; PB 6.30 beta 5 (x64) on Windows

Macro ShowType (_x_)
Select TypeOf(_x_)
Case ...

windows defender or another AV?

Neither for or against, I didn't really look at the code, it ran and that was about it.
The prompt was very generic and it'll be applying that from multiple tutorials, sources and languages but given better prompting and guidance It would be quite possible to spit out a half decent interpreter ...

asked claude
"write a calculator app in purebasic using shunting yard and rpn eval function"


; Calculator using Shunting Yard Algorithm and RPN Evaluation
; Supports +, -, *, /, ^, and parentheses

Structure Token
value.s
type.i ; 0=number, 1=operator, 2=left paren, 3=right paren
EndStructure ...

Merry Christmas. 3 days of it and I'm ready for a nap

wow that's looking great, amazing what a bit of grass can do!

Thanks nice addition.

skinkairewalker wrote: Mon Dec 22, 2025 9:59 pm

idle wrote: Fri Dec 19, 2025 7:22 pm You have the source for atomic webserver it does it already.

The only reason I can't use Atomic Web Server 3 right now is that I can't run it on Mac/Linux.

I no longer have a mac to test it on but it was working on linux.