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Off Topic / Re: Python 2.7.3 Discussion

« on: 2012-Nov-09 »

Python is a very powerful language, interesting in that nothing is statically typed.  Scripting support from within GLB would be interesting...
If you're interested in learning it, CS212 on Udacity is a very good course, and it gave me my favourite snippet:

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def memo(f):
   cache = dict()
   def wrap(*args):
      if args not in cache: cache[args] = f(*args)
      return cache[args]
   return wrap
memo:  A function that takes in a function, and returns a function that has an inbuilt cache that stores the results of previous calls.

so:

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f = lambda x: x**2
f = memo(f)
# or this achieves the same thing:
@memo
def f(x):
   return x**2


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GLBasic - en / Re: DGStr::GetStrData(size)?

« on: 2012-Oct-21 »

Alright I couldn't get setlength() to work, but alloc(int,bool) does seem to work (where the second boolean parameter seems to specify whether to copy the old string across).
Thanks for that - hopefully things won't be broken by this!

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GLBasic - en / Re: DGStr::GetStrData(size)?

« on: 2012-Oct-21 »

Yep it's easy get a pointer to the data, but how then do I allocate a buffer?  without GetStrData the only way I can think of getting a specific size DGStr is:
FOR i = 1 TO Size
   INC Buffer$, " "
NEXT
... which I can't see working very nicely or quickly :\

@Gernot (well anyone who knows the internal DGStr definition) is there another way I can allocate a string of a variable size?  Some special constructor?

(Slightly related, could GLB get around strings "like \0 this" by having a constructor take a c-string and a length?  That would be a lot easier than "like " + CHR$(0) + " this")

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GLBasic - en / DGStr::GetStrData(size)?

« on: 2012-Oct-20 »

The help file under INLINE mentions this function, but whenever I try to use it the compiler tells me that "class __GLBASIC__::DGStr has no member named 'GetStrData'".
Does the help file list the wrong name?  or what should I be using here?  Thanks.

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GLBasic - en / Re: any faster way to complie a program?

« on: 2012-Oct-07 »

one thing that's bugged me when I've had to look at the CPP is that line numbers are handled by a #define and #undef per line - tripling the number of lines, but I'm not sure how much of an effect that has on compilation speed though...

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GLBasic - en / Re: idea for another data handling for the net command bytes (send/receive)

« on: 2012-Aug-16 »

is there some simple way to get the address of the string data (for a DGStr) in INLINE code?

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FAQ / Re: Help Android Export

« on: 2012-Aug-01 »

The startup time isn't great, but you *might* be able to display a splash screen or prevent autolock by modifying the java code, but I'm not sure if anyone's succeeded yet.  Anyway it's not too bad that a native GUI is being developed first 

There's no way to use bluetooth with GLB commands, but using inline code and by modifying some of the java it should be possible - although I wouldn't know where to start...

On rescaling, I personally cheated and rendered everything to a 480x320 virtual screen (CREATESCREEN, USESCREEN, etc.), which I then rotate and display.  Code has been posted in the forums though - for instance http://www.glbasic.com/forum/index.php?topic=7145.0

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FAQ / Re: Help Android Export

« on: 2012-Aug-01 »

The first time your GLB app runs, all of the media files are copied out from the apk package - this takes a long while, but then afterwards your apps should start quite quickly.
A loading symbol or splash screen while the media files are copied *might* be implemented eventually (I'm not to sure on where this has gotten, but it isn't that much of a problem)

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Bug Reports / Re: IDE

« on: 2012-Jun-17 »

On #2 I get the same [for a lot of GLOBALs  ]
It seems to occur if definitions of globalled variables are within functions...

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GLBasic - en / Re: Something wired

« on: 2012-Jun-16 »

This is confusing.

I tried this code:

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LOCAL start=0
LOCAL stop=200000
LOCAL stepping=0.005

LOCAL time0#, value#, s$

FOR trials = 0 TO 2

value = 0
time0=GETTIMERALL()
FOR i=start TO stop STEP stepping
value=value+1
NEXT
time0=GETTIMERALL()-time0
STDOUT time0+" ms\n"


NEXT

STDOUT "\n\n"


FOR trials = 0 TO 2

value = 0
time0=GETTIMERALL()
FOR i=start TO stop STEP stepping
value=value+1
NEXT
time0=GETTIMERALL()-time0
s$ = value
STDOUT time0+" ms\n"

NEXT

KEYWAIT
END
This gives me around 100ms for the pure loop, and 140ms for the loop which has "s$ = value" afterwards...


However, running this code:

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LOCAL start=0
LOCAL stop=200000
LOCAL stepping=0.005

LOCAL time0#, value#, s$


value = 0
time0=GETTIMERALL()
FOR i=start TO stop STEP stepping
value=value+1
NEXT
time0=GETTIMERALL()-time0
STDOUT time0+" ms\n"


STDOUT "\n\n"

value = 0
time0=GETTIMERALL()
FOR i=start TO stop STEP stepping
value=value+1
NEXT
time0=GETTIMERALL()-time0
s$ = value
STDOUT time0+" ms\n"


KEYWAIT
END(The same code just w/o the for loops), I get 115ms and 140ms....

Using kakonet's original code (i.e. using 'value=1' instead of 'value=value+1'), with both snippets left in as above, I get the same times (115ms, 140ms).
Running either snippet on their own I get these times...

Using 'value = SIN(1)' instead, I get something like 4495ms for the one without the string, and 4505ms for the one with the string assignment afterwards.

I have tried things like adding a DELAY at the start and rearranging things, but get the same results.
Go figure 
This seems like it has to do with optimisation, although I don't understand why things would turn out differently within for loops, or with a conversion to a string afterwards....

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IDE/Syntax / Re: inline idea for Android

« on: 2012-May-15 »

I'm in favour of the external file - could we put that in the project directory and have GLB copy that across?  (like w/ icon.png?)

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Announcements / Re: GLBScript - HTML5 for GLBasic

« on: 2012-May-06 »

 

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GLBasic - en / Re: Help with Sockets

« on: 2012-Apr-29 »

Are you having port forwarding issues?  (Presuming you connect using a router, how have you set it up?  Sounds like the port is forwarded to your PC - so connecting to it works, but won't work on another device in your network...)

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2D / Re: window control request

« on: 2012-Apr-28 »

I believe you'll find the command he meant is SETSCREEN 

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GLBasic - en / Re: Android, files in media folder automatically copied to data?

« on: 2012-Apr-17 »

Sounds good.  I guess we could mess with the code anyway if we really wanted too.  Isn't it funny that the difference between a blank screen and a series of moving "O"s is so large to a user?