Before starting on a game I need to know if QB64 is capable of creating multiple (3) display "screens or panels" that can handle scrolling text; not re-sizeable and without GUI borders....

Each panel will need to be able to have text and or graphics directed to them. I am not sure that I am explaining this properly.

This is a sample of the panel sizes....

   
Overall image size is 1024x768.


Top left panel: Graphics and a little text. Top right panel: Graphics and text: Bottom panel: Text only. (this panel may need to be able to scroll... but not too sure)

draw filled equilateral polygons and circles using _MapTriangle

Back in 1979, Tom Rugg and Phil Feldman, wrote a vocabulary quiz program for the TRS-80. Text only. It only had 15 words and meanings. I had converted it to several other Basic dialects in the past. Today is QB64's turn ... with a few modifications.

This is the first version for QB64. I am not sure about RND() as some dialects have slightly different formats. The program seems to work but is inefficient. I would appreciate extra sets of eyes to help with the streamlining of the conversion. I am only familiar with the basic (no pun intended) QB64 commands.

As always, all constructive criticism and advice, will be gratefully appreciated.

J


  vocab65.zip (Size: 313.86 KB / Downloads: 33)

Just like the real thing.  

Put one of your sound files, like a .mp3 file, in the same folder as this. When it starts it asks for the file name, and you will also need the ending (like .mp3). Then it will play the song
and shoot lightning in the frequencies of the music. After it ends it will go back to asking for a song name again. 

Tell me what you think. I got almost all the code from the Wiki Help page with an example of sound frequency display here: https://qb64phoenix.com/qb64wiki/index.php/MEMSOUND 
I just turned the frequency waves into lightning bolts pretty much on a rod. 

(Code deleted, scroll down to my next code I posted.)

A trivially easy way to enter an IPv4 address into qb64, and extract the four decimals values 0-255 which make up the address, is to use commas as delimiters for each byte of the address. I've done that, and my program (to convert an IP multicast address into its derived MAC group address, per RFC 1112) works fine that way.

What would be even better is to be able to enter the IP address in its conventional form, with . instead of , for delimiters. So for example, given the multicast address

239.255.128.1

I'm now entering it as

239,255,128,1

It's okay, super easy to parse, but not really nice.

So far, I have this. It inputs the dotted quad as a single string variable, then changes the dots into commas, so that hopefully the four decimal numbers can be easily parsed by qb64. Just trying to figure out an easy way to make the ASCII list of numbers and commas, which you see in the output, into four separate decimal numbers. I'm not proficient in all the niceties of how numbers and characters can be converted in qb64. Any super clever ideas out there? There usually are.

while I'm selecting between the half-finished programs, I'll post the interesting ones here

from "the big chase" (flying on the neverend perlin field WASD+mouse)

A silly little program inspired by staying up too late and leaving youtube playing while I was programming, and a video came up on the Babel Library.   Here's a small piece of that:

Whew, that was one of the harder apps I've done in awhile, but I had a blast! I didn't even need help on this specific version either. Although I would like you guys to use it and tell me if you find any problems, thanks.
There's 1000 words in this one on the DATA lines of different sizes, from 2 to 12 letters. They are also in alphabetical order because that's how I found them online. I removed a couple and added a couple as well. Feel free to remove any you wish and add any you wish. It will count them. Also, if you add any with symbols or capitol letters, it just won't use those. Plus if you add any that are over 12 letters or under 2 letters, it won't use those either. The main reason for the 12 letter limit is because I ran out of screen room. 
These 1000 words are mostly the most common words used in the English language it says. I added the URL to the words next to the DATA lines. 
The hardest part in making this was removing the 5 strings from the last Hangman and making loops instead, with arrays. It also seems a bit simple until you really dig into all the things needed.  If you have any questions about the code, feel free to ask and I will try my best to answer. 
Have fun! 

(Note: I just found a small problem, I'll post the fix below.)

Some scalable text routines and a little demo program. This is meant to work with 8bit color (currently only supports a palette of colors from 0 to 127 due to encoding).

Basically, the default font is scanned and encoded into a string array that is later decoded to display the characters as part of a set of tiles. The default font is rescaled to 16 by 16 but can be redrawn at any size desired. 

to do:   
output a set of data statements to be copied and included in another program 
ADDED loading a ttf and allow it to be added to the tileset 
maybe a graphical editor to edit individual character tile ... this might be done in another program.

EDIT: updated see latest post to see most up to date version