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What does None means here? I would guess that something would have to render stuff. In any case, it doesn't seem to work.

And where do I find those # commands in the help?

There's nothing to render I guess


This is the only render command reference I found so far:
https://www.appgamekit.com/news/post/appgamekit-studio-20190805-latest-version-released

I've ran a test with a function showing a "message()". The main window is not rendered at all as well as not being present on the taskbar or within the taskmanager. It is completely hidden. The messages during my tests did show something was running. Hackers will love that feature! Lol.

It will generally be listed under 'Background processes' in the task manager, rather than as an app. Or if you compile and launch from the IDE, it will be chained to a linked task under the IDE's app listing. So it seems to be a potential way to develop a headless server program. I'm trying to struggle through it myself as it seems some operations/commands may not be getting executed during runtime while in this mode, so my efforts to get my (non-graphical version) server program haven't yet panned out successfully and I haven't been able to determine why yet (maybe due in no small part to a lack of error reporting). I've tried using just 'Swap()' with each loop as directed in the release notes as well as full 'Sync()', but it doesn't seem to work with either for some unknown reason at this point.

A '#renderer "Software"' mode that also removes any GPU requirement would be helpful to test a non-graphical mode with just text to try and troubleshoot this type of operation. As things are, I have no idea why the program is actively running and using CPU resources, but does not properly handle a multiplayer session using the exact same code as the GPU enabled version. Could be an inability to read/write from/to files, certain network commands, or something else. I just don't seem to have any way of determining a cause.

Edit: As is often the case, the problem with the headless mode not working properly for my multiplayer server program was user error (namely me One misaligned check for an object status resulted in a bypass of the connection directive to start the session. Once that was sorted, the headless mode worked well.

#renderer None... does exactly what it says on the tin., it doesn't load the Rendering Engine (be that OpenGL or Vulkan)
This is primarily for Applications that you don't need Graphics for, instead you just want them to run in the Terminal or such... say like a Dedicated Server Runtime.

Honestly I don't see this being a particularly useful Feature (given it's currently limited to Windows only) and AppGameKit Tier 1 doesn't exactly have great Console Features at present.
Hence why it says to use Swap instead of Sync... as Swap (unlike the name suggests) just updates the Core AppGameKit Logic., if the Renderer is running it will also perform a Backbuffer Flip but that's Conditional on a Completed "Render()" Call... if you never call Render() then the Buffer Doesn't get Flipped as the Data should remain the same; and I'd wager if it's blank then it's essentially calling a NULL Pointer.

It could be useful in Tier 2 Console Apps., but yeah... don't see many use cases for Tier 1.