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This was meant to be a general question independent of language but never the less I chose to post it here: I've always wandered what does the CPU do when a program reaches a line that contains Delay() or in general a command that sleeps the current thread it is on. For example if I wrote an ...

I was messing around with the blending mode creating some fire particles of different colors with textures I found online. I managed to create these nice looking flames:
http://i60.tinypic.com/2s64vv8.png
With red/green/blue textures like this one:
http://i61.tinypic.com/fz41sy.png

However I ...

I'm using the following code to create a wavy background effect of an image but the oscillation speed is too fast.


Pi.d = 3.1415926535897931
Phase.d = 0;
Amplitude = 10;
Waves = 2;
Angle.d = 0;

;Displays each row of pixels in the image with an offset to create the effect
For Count = 0 To Rows ...

Hi

I'm creating a program for personal use to split and merge files > 2GB in size and I was wondering about a few things I hope the PB community can help me with :D

Is there a way I can get a pointer to the file I want to split without having to allocate a huge chunk of memory for it? Say I had a ...

Yeah I had some idea that during translation some strings would be longer and when I save it would overwrite with the new string and not work. Is there any way to overcome this?

PB wrote:Maybe you need a resource editor like this:

http://www.resedit.net/

It might be able to let you edit the strings.

This looks quite promising , thanks PB.

> it has come up with 27/47 detection ratio

Ew, no thanks. :(

Maybe a different hex editor would work?

That's the thing , I don't know what hex editor to use , I found one called PSPad editor but I'm pretty clueless how to use it to change the strings , don't really know whether it;s UTF-16 ...

Where can we download the program to see?
We might be able to give some advice then.

Edit: Here is the link to the program http://www.mediafire.com/download/ss2n97uviayzcf2/Eingling.exe
Just so you know I have scanned this using VirusTotal and it has come up with 27/47 detection ratio so don't ...

I've come across a program where everything is written in chinese , I was wondering how would I go about changing all the the strings to english? I mean usually if I wanted to do something like this I would use a hex editor but the one I have won't work for something like this. Can anyone provide ...

Hi

Been wondering for a while now about this ; how can I interact with the devices connected to my computer? I.e Getting the device name or anything related to it.

Thanks
Nubcake

Slightly offtopic but that's the Hex Editor I use . Back to the original question I don't know for sure but it looks like that toolbar/rebar is ownerdrawn.

Nubcake

When ever I open this it just closes?
Win 7 Ultimate x86

wilbert wrote:If you do a forum search for Bresenham you will probably find what you need.

Thanks wilbert I found what I was looking for.

First of all it's not really what It seems , yes I know there is a LineXY function already but I really need to know how to draw a from a point(x1,y1) to (x2,y2) using Poiint.
Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks
Nubcake

A pointer is only ONE adress ! If you want to store a structure here a simple example

Structure Pixel
x.l
y.l
EndStructure

Procedure someProc(someParam)

Protected *Point.Pixel = AllocateMemory(SizeOf(Pixel))

If *Point
Debug "pointer ready"
*Point\x = 1
*Point\y = someParam ...