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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Who else would like to see more of the internal structures exposed ?

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MrTAToad
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Aside from me, who else would like to see more of the DBPro structures (for sprites etc) exposed - it has been said that if more people want it, they might look into it.
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what could you do if they were exposed?

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Aside from writing your own scaling/moving routines, you could (theoretically at the moment), have an interrupt-driven sprite movement routine, which, being independent of the main program, wouldn't slow it down.

You could write your own 2D/3D collision routines...

The list is endless...

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sounds good

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MrTAToad
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Yes, it does...

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Hopefully more people would be interested...

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Can already do most of it - there's a lot more exposed than you'd think.

Give me a couple of weeks to iron things out, and I'll be shipping code that will allow you to interface to sprite,objects,bitmaps,images,input ... you name it.
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Well, if you can get hold of all the structures - that would be useful.

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I doubt it will be easy...

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Some already exposed. Check out the file globstruct.h in the TESTCOMMANDS2 folder. There is a structure named GlobStruct which contains many handles to the internal data.

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Yes, but it doesn't have any sprite/bitmap/image/sound information - hence the need to expose more.

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(mouth waters...) i want those commands... or i could just do what i want in c++ O_O or ASM...

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Trouble with doing that is that your DX layer would have no interaction with DBPro's DX - its easy enough to create your own sprites etc...

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MrTAToad: I see DLL handles to sprites, images, sound, etc in the globstructs.h file. However, there is no documentation how to use them ;(

-levent.

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whereabouts?

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never mind - the info isnt exposed though - and info is needed on that

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It ain't that hard to work it out - I've done it.
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So are you going to show us the sprite structures then ?

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I'm in favor!! the more the programmer can get to (ie. no restrictions) the better. The reason C became popular.

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