04-21-2023, 05:10 PM
I don't remember if I announced it here on the forums, or not, but on April 1st I paid for and renewed our domain and servers for another year -- so QB64PE isn't going away anywhere anytime soon.
Donations for the last year came up to about $210.00, and total renewal costs were about $260.00 (if anyone's interested), with the final $50.00 coming from yours truly. Our costs are actually quite manageable, and that's even with me not trying to promote the Patreon or to spam anyone for donations, or sell advertising space or any of that other junk. I truly don't foresee it being an issue for us to stay up and going for the indefinite future.
We'll be getting more updates. It's just that the things folks are working on right now are rather large in scope and will take a bit for implementation and testing. We're pushing for changes to the input library to help remove those unregistered and mismapped keystrokes (I think all the _BUTTON and _DEVICE inputs are fixed now, but there's still work ongoing for _KEYHIT, _KEYDOWN, and INKEY$). The font library is being replaced and updated, which should do several things for us. (Key is a basic increase in print speeds of anywhere from 200% to 600%, from initial testing. PrintWidth is getting a fix, so it now calculates variable width string size about 900% faster. Fonts are being cached better, printed faster, and hopefully will be rendering better with less cut-off, in the future.)
Both of those are MAJOR fixes and require a lot of work behind the scenes with QB64PE, so I hope folks can understand why we haven't pushed an updated version out for the last little while. Hopefully the next update will come Soon(tm), but since we're all just hobbyists working on this in our spare time as life allows us too, don't expect any sort of release date or deadline to ever be announced. It'll just get here when it gets here, and we all hope it's Soon(tm), just like the rest of y'all.
Donations for the last year came up to about $210.00, and total renewal costs were about $260.00 (if anyone's interested), with the final $50.00 coming from yours truly. Our costs are actually quite manageable, and that's even with me not trying to promote the Patreon or to spam anyone for donations, or sell advertising space or any of that other junk. I truly don't foresee it being an issue for us to stay up and going for the indefinite future.
Quote: Long life to QB64PE, whether or not it gets another update.
We'll be getting more updates. It's just that the things folks are working on right now are rather large in scope and will take a bit for implementation and testing. We're pushing for changes to the input library to help remove those unregistered and mismapped keystrokes (I think all the _BUTTON and _DEVICE inputs are fixed now, but there's still work ongoing for _KEYHIT, _KEYDOWN, and INKEY$). The font library is being replaced and updated, which should do several things for us. (Key is a basic increase in print speeds of anywhere from 200% to 600%, from initial testing. PrintWidth is getting a fix, so it now calculates variable width string size about 900% faster. Fonts are being cached better, printed faster, and hopefully will be rendering better with less cut-off, in the future.)
Both of those are MAJOR fixes and require a lot of work behind the scenes with QB64PE, so I hope folks can understand why we haven't pushed an updated version out for the last little while. Hopefully the next update will come Soon(tm), but since we're all just hobbyists working on this in our spare time as life allows us too, don't expect any sort of release date or deadline to ever be announced. It'll just get here when it gets here, and we all hope it's Soon(tm), just like the rest of y'all.