I've used them on occasion, mostly for conversion factor stuff, but generally don't see the point. Use a shared variable that you don't change and it's the same thing as far as I can tell.

Thanks Fellippe, that works like old times and grabs the best of both worlds. Much appreciated.

I'm not a heavy user of debug features, but the few times I've used it, I've found it helpful. A worthwhile feature in general. I wouldn't characterize it as a particularly intuitive a system, but I could get over that by more use and familiarity.

If I were to critique a personal negative aspect, it would be the loss of full line highlighting by clicking at the line number bar. I always liked being able to do that. I could easily make multiples of code lines, make small changes in each and then comment toggle among them. It's gone now, which I found an irritation.

As it is now, I have to be very precise with my mouse dragging from column 1 of the line I want to column 1 of the next line, to highlight a code line for cut/paste ops. My hands are those of an arthritic farmer, not a surgeon, and I have to maneuver very close to the line number bar to do this and If I'm not careful, it's constantly asking if I want to add $DEBUG, which I then have to cancel. If I actually want $DEBUG, I can go do it manually. The auto add part of it, otherwise, interferes with my workflow.

PS I see from an earlier post how to turn off the auto add feature, which helps. Still I can no longer single click to highlight a line. I suppose I better hang on to 1.5

I "sort of" recognize certain equations in this, from using a simple, single ray algorithm to check for line of sight occlusions in a 3D environment. Of course rendering these sorts of light and reflective views is what it's really good for. It's stuff that I wish I understood better.

It's amazing how much this is doing, for such a small amount of code. Nicely done.

Am I doing something wrong? My understanding is that QB64 can do a massed array PUT


Compile log results in:

I often execute forum searches that come up with nothing. Even when I know many of the search terms, or distinctly remember seeing a thread, it seems to not find the things that I know damn well are there. Then there is the picking out every instance of a word and filling the search with junk, as in "I've been out of sorts lately", or "can I get some help sorting out a bug?" At that point I might just as well go thread by thread, and life's not in endless supply. As Dimster said "it has its limitations". So when those things happen, and my patience with it ends, I go out into the general net and find mostly C++ code, which I still find incomprehensible.

This was a nice little package, that was in one place, which I appreciated and said so. I've lately been trying to wrap my meager brain limitations around a sorting problem. It was not my intention to offend, but I have no control over what others find offensive.

Welcome,

The only point I would add to this is regarding SUB/FUNCTION differences.

It might also be noted that a FUNCTION can do many SUB-like things, even calling on other SUBs. In its attempt to obtain a value to return it can handle quite complex tasks. Manipulate images, display data lists, access files, obtain mouse and key inputs, etc.