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I'm currently using PureBasic 5.73 LTS (Windows - x86), as newer versions of Purebasic are a disaster with some of the software I've developed. I haven't had the opportunity to test out any new functions, such as DateUTC().

Here is a function to get the current UNIX UTC time in seconds as a quad integer value. This should be year 2038 safe.

Procedure.q GetUnixTime()
; Get the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 12:00am UTC as a 64 bit quad integer.
; Use https://www.unixtimestamp.com/ to test.
; REFERENCE: https ...

Here's a HTML documentation file I created for OpenB3D: http://freehandyscripts.com/stuff/OpenB3DHelp.html

You should be able to download the file by right-clicking on it and using the 'Save As', 'Save linked content', etc. option. Or open the HTML source code and save that to a HTML file.

I often use <new> tabs in the editor for temporary testing code, and I tend to keep these open in case I want to redo or utilize the test code. The problem with this is that every time I do a 'Save all' I get pestered to save the temporary tab.

What I would like is if there was a 'Do not save ...

This discussion ~

https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?p=599510#p599510

~ had me checking for a reliable dedicated link to the 'Examples' folder in the editor and help files. I couldn't find one, which is sub-optimal as browsing those examples provides many good opportunities for ...

The screen resolution shouldn't be an issue, as you are using windowed mode which doesn't have the limitations that fullscreen has.

Try putting some numbered 'Debug' statements in there to see if you can identify the line that is causing the crash.

OpenB3D is based on Blitz3D and uses most of the same commands. You can find Blitz3D along with usage docs and examples at the links below.

https://kippykip.com/b3ddocs/commands/index.htm | https://blitzresearch.itch.io/blitz3d | https://nitrologic.itch.io/blitz3d

Thanks for the replies. I've updated the original post with your suggestions.

[Edited to fix issues discussed below.]

This function will create a grayscale version of the specified input image and output it via the output image. See the comments in the function for more information.

; Converts the pixels in 'input_image' to grayscale and stores them in 'output_image'. The ...

To add to this suggestion, I'd like to see the F1 key ability to jump to any global identifier declaration (eg. the initial declaration point for global variables, arrays, linked lists, structures, procedures, etc).

Generally, I add comments to the point where a global element is declared to ...

I don't think OpenB3D has a command that supports unpacking a model file from RAM. It has options for building 3D mesh geometry manually though, so you can still write your own command to do this. That's probably not something you may wish to do, but the option still exists if it is useful to you ...

The last update was 15 hours ago, so not really a dead project ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/minib3d/files/ ). It's only intended to be a small framework for hobbyists and indies though, so the dev probably largely considers it a completed project.

Question... Why use this library instead of the integrated one (Ogre3D)?
1/ I needed to do some overdraw rendering which involves preventing the renderer from clearing the color buffer. OpenB3d and Blitz3D support this via the CameraClsMode command, and Ogre3D also supports it. The Purebasic ...

I don't get why you return a 32-bit value instead of 64 bit. I also don't get why you need this for a random seed. You simply can use CryptRandom() for that purpose. It returns a real random number. :)


There are two functions. One is designed to return millisecond values via a quad integer and ...

Added some new commands:-

; "FIRST-PAGE" - Open a new Chrome browser tab page (CONTROL-1).
; "NEXT-PAGE" - Move to the next Chrome browser tab page (CONTROL-TAB).
; "CLOSE-PAGE" - Close the current Chrome browser tab page (CONTROL-W).
; "TAB-DELAY" - Sets the millisecond delay to use between ...