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by The Th!ng
Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:49 pm
Forum: Game Programming
Topic: Falling Snow
Replies: 4
Views: 2962

Re: Falling Snow


Static Dim Snow.SnowCalculations(#MaxFlakes) is doing - you have a static array of some type called snow is it??? or is the array called Snow.SnowCalculations - I'm coming from C# so whenever I see dot notation I'm thinking of it like a method or property.

http://www.purebasic.com/documentation ...
by The Th!ng
Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:25 pm
Forum: Game Programming
Topic: Falling Snow
Replies: 4
Views: 2962

Re: Falling Snow

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?p=337560#p337560

Example...
http://www.flashpulse.com/purebasic/Snow%20Test.zip

;)

Thanks for the link, J. Baker, there's no comments which leaves some of it a bit cryptic for me. for starters could you explain what
Static Dim Snow ...
by The Th!ng
Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:20 pm
Forum: Game Programming
Topic: Falling Snow
Replies: 4
Views: 2962

Falling Snow

To start off my adventures in PB I'd like to write a program that displays falling snow - that is one pixel represents one flake, falling from the top of the screen to the bottom and building up there in drifts as it were. What is the best means of keeping track of a few hundred flakes as they fall ...
by The Th!ng
Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:07 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Hello..... from a new user
Replies: 9
Views: 2544

Hello..... from a new user

Hi everyone,

I recently bought a copy of PB and just wanted to say how much I am looking forward to getting to grips with the language. I have been coding as a hobbyist since the days of the 48K Spectrum on which I learned a bit of BASIC before doing some Z80 assembler.

I am hoping to eventually ...