New User Needs Guidance
- Posted by Mind Ventures <mventure at IO.COM> Jan 05, 1997
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I recently downloaded Euphoria 1.4 and have been looking over it. Kudos to the developers. It really is very fast and the language itself looks both elegant and easy to learn. I have some questions that aren't answered in the docs that were in the file and was wondering if someone can point me to a location where I can find these (or send the answers). First, I'm primarily interested in Euphoria to help do some quick prototyping for some game code I originally planned to write in C++ but I think I can get up and running in Euphoria faster and if it turns out to be too slow for production level I can at least proto the software in Euphoria then convert it to Visual C when I get all the bugs worked out of my processes. Questions... 1. Is there a way to do a transparent color in sprites/bitmaps so that they don't overwrite the background video they're being placed on top of? In basic and c sub's I've seen XON pasting with transparent color codes as a way around this problem. 2. Is there any internal coding for sprite collission detection or does this all have to be hand coded? 3. I see some code for adding sound blaster support but haven't seen any demos that allow for background music or simultaneous sound generation while the program does other things (screen updates, move sprites etc.) Is there anything out there to show this? The same goes for MIDI files or MODs in the background. 4. Since it uses calls in a similar way, wouldn't it be a simple translation to port binary machine language strings from QB or QBasic to Euphoria by simply porting the data strings without modifying any of the values? 5. I need some good sample code to help me decide if Euphoria is going to have the speed/capabilities to do what I want. The samples in the package are good and show off a lot of the language's capabilities but I'd like to see something a bit more complicated like games, larger menuing programs etc. Where can I find code like this? I've checked the suggested Lord Generic page but everytime I try to retreive code the web site gives me an "page unfound" error. Are these files archived somewhere else? 6. I got the available assignments for the game project that was being worked on but they only go up to week 3 on the above site. Have these been picked up anywhere else or does anybody know when the project will start up again? Sorry about all the questions. I'm very new to Euphoria and hope this is an active list. I'd like to learn more about the languge and see what I can do with it. Thanks, Chuck