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I still intend to finish it, but other projects have been taken my time lately and there didnt seem to be much interest :( The binaries are uploaded again and both links should work now. Remember that this is an unfinished version 0.81 though ;)

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Is this still an active project? Your most recent post is from september, but the download on the website returns a 404 error.

I already have xcode command line tools installed. I've successfully used purebasic on this computer in the past, just not in the last few months.

The only change I'm aware of that has happened since I last used purebasic is that I've had to install an actual gcc through homebrew in order to get ...

Today I decided to work on a gui utility for a personal task, and naturally I thought to use purebasic because it's so much easier to get simple gui applications working than in other languages I deal with.

But when I attempted to compile from a work-in-progress I had open from some months ago, I ...

netmaestro wrote:GrabDrawingImage, a relatively new command (v4.4 iirc) is what you want:

That approach doesn't look like it lets you make use of any of the features available to sprites, such as rotation, scaling, blending modes, etc.

Unfortunately, startdrawing() is only for the 2d drawing library, so spriteoutput() is only relevant for things like line(), box(), etc.

I've requested in the past for a mechanism to render sprites onto a sprite as the target buffer, but it isn't currently possible with the PB libraries.

The ability to use SpriteOutput() for 2d drawing commands without trashing the alpha channel is a very welcome improvement, but it would be nice if we could make use of the sprite library functions for working on a sprite.

I have a lot of things I'd like to be doing with procedurally generated ...

IdeasVacuum wrote:PB5.20Beta17LTS x86 - Help - Check for updates - "No new versions are available"

Works here, after I go into Preferences and change Check for releases: to All Releases (including beta releases)

In beta 16, it happily told me about beta 18.

There are some very nice things here.. But this (along with the other sprite changes) caught my eye:

Added: 32-bit support for SpriteOutput() for DX and OpenGL


I did some exploring, and I want to make sure I'm not missing something.

Is it still not possible to draw a sprite with an alpha ...

I discussed my work a bit in Icesoft's thread, but I realized I'm probably not going to be up for completing this project anytime soon due to other commitments.
Consequently, I'm handing out what I do have done to the community, in case anyone would benefit from it or wants to finish it out.

I ...

And if I want to use the system mouse in full screen? It's possible in other engines. I can't use WindowMouseX(), etc. there, as I said in the first post. I don't see why it's necessary for PureBasic to force the capture of the mouse.

The feature request you want to make at this point is for an ...

If I call ReleaseMouse() at the end of my main loop, then none of the mouse functions work. I understand about capturing the mouse, but I am requesting the ability to use the standard system cursor if I so desire.

Look at the top of the mouse library documentation .

The way these mouse functions ...

What you want is ReleaseMouse().

By default it captures the mouse, as that's the usual use case for most games, but you can release it if you want.

I'm not sure what kind of "GPU settings" might be relevant for regular 2D drawing like we're looking at here. What all hardware steps actually go into the 2d-only startdrawing() .. stopdrawing() .. flipbuffers() cyle, anyway? How do they differ between openGL and DirectX, in the PureBasic ...

It never occurred to me to try opengl. That's very interesting.

Once I tried opengl, I got results similar to (but lower volume) to buddymatkona, no visible slowdowns.