xLIB Examples

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Wed 06 Jul, 2005 7:21 pm

I thought that it might be a good idea to have a thread devoted to xLIB examples. If anyone has any small demos using the xLIB APP please post them here

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Here is the simple demo which is now included in the ticalc.org release:

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi ... 35907.html

*note that you might have to wait a few days for ticalc.org to update the file.

There is a small challenge out for people to try and optimise the example for speed ... lets see if we can get it running fast

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temp link: http://s4.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=01593 ... EUCKE42HHA

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Wed 06 Jul, 2005 11:49 pm

Oh, I'll give it a try.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Thu 07 Jul, 2005 8:08 am

Well there are a LOT of optimisations to be made, you will see

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Post by **Kozak** » Thu 07 Jul, 2005 8:19 am

Hmm xLib seems powerfull. Good work tr1p

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One thing I notice: in the demo the character 'flickers' when you walk. Can this be improved?

necro · Post by **necro** » Thu 07 Jul, 2005 1:37 pm

-you oughta add the flash gordan like capabilities, as flash gordan sucks
-you oughta add line, rect, polygon, circle, arc, ect, supput (with out over write)
-have a function to draw a sprite over the entire screen (good for inviromental stuff, like animated rain)
-have the direct imput enabled with support for multiple keys
-more than ten pics, and have xlib be able to generate those +9 pics
-if you get the time, a 16X16 tile mapper

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Thu 07 Jul, 2005 2:08 pm

1) This is not a request thread, this is the example thread.
2) You sure thats ALL you want? Anything else? You want it to wash your dishes too?

basjuh · Post by **basjuh** » Thu 07 Jul, 2005 3:20 pm

tr1p1ea wrote:2) You sure thats ALL you want? Anything else? You want it to wash your dishes too?

[oftopic]If it can cool beer, could you add that functioality too then??[/oftopic]

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Thu 07 Jul, 2005 8:50 pm

basjuh wrote:
tr1p1ea wrote:2) You sure thats ALL you want? Anything else? You want it to wash your dishes too?
[oftopic]If it can cool beer, could you add that functioality too then??[/oftopic]

If you could do that triplea, it would be the best library ever!

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Thu 07 Jul, 2005 11:13 pm

your demo is way too hard to optimise tr1p, I am better at writing code so I think I'll just rewrite the whole ADEMO.8XP program from scratch

merthsoft · Post by **merthsoft** » Thu 07 Jul, 2005 11:29 pm

Is there a prize?

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Thu 07 Jul, 2005 11:36 pm

Perhaps tr1p's algorithm for a beer cooler. I hear it only takes 20 secs to cool a beer.

necro · Post by **necro** » Fri 08 Jul, 2005 2:03 am

I agree with kevin, there was so much extraneous code that it took me a good while to figure out how your scrolling method worked

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Fri 08 Jul, 2005 11:36 am

Well there isnt much to rewrite ... you initialise some vars, draw the map, draw the player then check for keys. If a key is pressed you check the move against a tile, if you can move you do, if you cant you cant.

Of course the implementation is crappy ... but i thought it was straight-forward

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necro · Post by **necro** » Sat 09 Jul, 2005 4:05 am

but you should have just drawn the character with a X*8 and a Y*8 and not used any lbls ( and combined the L/R and U/D key presses as opposed to using lbls at all)

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Sat 09 Jul, 2005 8:59 am

Those are the exact optimisations i was talking about.

However such a program would not be fit for an example ... especially for someone who isnt a well developed BASIC programmer.