I just thought that this topic needed a december post. I wasn't here, FYI.

I am having one heck of a time with SDL. I've tried everything that I can think of, but I can't get it to even display a simple image! I'm going to just put the source out here, and hope someone knows what the problem is.
(language is FreeBasic.)

Code:

'$INCLUDE: "SDL/SDL.BI"


'init:def
const SCR_WIDTH = "640"
const SCR_HEIGHT = "480"
dim bitmap AS SDL_Surface ptr
dim video AS SDL_Surface ptr

'init:act
SDL_Init ( SDL_INIT_VIDEO )
video = SDL_SetVideoMode( 640, 480, 32, 0 ) 'sets the video mode to 640x480x32

'Init ended
MenuScreen = SDL_LoadBMP("bitmap.bmp")


SUB BlitImage(x as integer, y as integer, image as sdl_surface ptr)
    DIM Rectangle as SDL_Rect
    DIM Rectangle2 as SDL_Rect
    
    Rectangle.x = 0
    Rectangle.y = 0
    Rectangle.w = image->w
    Rectangle.h = image->h
    Rectangle2.x = x
    Rectangle2.y = y
    
    SDL_BlitSurface image, @Rectangle, ScreenSurface, @Rectangle2
    
    

END SUB

SLEEP 1000

SDL: SDL_Quit ()

Is the hand that you're talking about the one on your back?

Wow, That's an interesting brain: it looks like a face!

Wow. That's adisturbing image.


I knew Elv was an alien! Just look at that face!
So elv, where are you from? Mexico or Japan.

http://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=DocToc
It'll take you less then 5 weeks if you use BASIC.

If J# has the same syntax as Java, maybe Sun will sue Microsoft, distroying everything windows-compatible and starting an *nix revolution!!!!!!

Did I mention I have to re-install windows at least 4 times a year?

I'm actually dissipointed at you (which makes me suprised - Me dissapointed at you?). Talking about bycicles when aliens are trying to remove the importance of Guns in everyday life.

good luck with seeing progress soon:

SDL=Hell
(GTK2+)=Confusion, and then eventually death.

seriously. There is some definite problems with the implimentation of these libraries!

I'll tell you when I'm out of SDL Hell.

As I said befoer, now that I'm home, I can do something and - despite my silence for a while - I have been. Research. Research, a bit of learning, and a bit off refreshing on an old language - and in a different sense, a new language. The results: definitions. I've made some decisions that probibly should have been made already.

The programming language: BASIC

Don't be fooled. I don't meen Microsoft QuickBASIC or any of that old outdated stuff. I mean FreeBASIC. It's a relatively new language that practically every programmer knows already. check out freebasic.net for more information.
The reasons why I chose this language Follows:
(A) almost every programmer has had experiance in BASIC
(B) It's cross-platform so I can bring it all over to Windows, Linux, Mac, and appearantly even the XBOX.
(C) it has something for everything; FMOD BASS and OpenAL for audio, GTK2+ for video (With DirectX for all of the things windows refuses to do), Allegro to do various game things, OpenGL for 2D and 3D effects, and even XML for various XML-related utilities
(D) Although smaller then other languages, it has some community to help us Debug.
(E) BASIC structure makes for easy programming.

We're probibly going to use SCREEN 18 or 19.

Also, Ive decided to scrap the 3D prerendering idea. It looks very tacky in low resolutions. I will, however, use it for any FMVs I need, which may just be the intro video.


If you don't believe how good my choices are, go check out Gryffin's Tale (please take note that it's a victom of bad programming, but at least it looks good) at http://syn9.thingie.net/?table=griffonlegend





P.S., I don't suppose you know BASIC, devlyn?

That's kind of ironic because my last homecoming's theme was "Life is a game" and my year's game was Clue.

Wow. Life is really boring without me here.

Oh wait! I'm not!

Damn it! I took a short look at the TV and instantly my brain drained!

sometimes I have nightmares about the color of this forum leaching out into the real world and replacing real people.

It's kind of sad that the shades of blue and purple are superinteligent, but green is kind of dumb.

Don't you all feel sorry for green?

appearantly, none of you can understand the incredible intelect of a rabit.