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I have Kaspersky 2011: works fine for me -- however it blocks blitzmax compilation haha.

Types can contain both variables and functions, so apart from not having property/method scopes and constructor/destructor you can treat types as mini-objects.

You could make a function called "creatObjectType()" that acts as a constructor I guess. But still, I find inheritance and polymorphism extremely useful in game development -- but I guess I can live without them if it means proper cross platform development. I know monkey offers proper OOP (and generics) but its extremely buggy (I find) and has no networking support, which is what I really wanted (dont worry I'm not some fool trying to make a solo MMO).

Welcome

could I literally code a complex game once and run it on iPhone (provided I add the right resolution and touch screen controls)?

Yes and a variety of other platforms too

You can use inline commands to access C++ code. However, I'm not sure of the limitations and from what I understand the speed difference for many of GLB's features compared with C++ is so miniscule as to make using mainly C++ pointless - you might as well do as much as you can with GLBasic, which is quicker and easier to code with. Although I haven't coded in C++ for many, many years now, so don't necessarily take my word for it.

The only reason I would want to interface with C++ would be to use OOP code for my game logic -- its just the way I am used to doing things.

Hello everyone, as you may have been able to deduce from my post count I am new here. I have been looking at GLBasic for a while and I have a few questions:

I am impressed by the array of features GLBasic has (3d support, networking, built in libs etc) but how well do these translate to the various build targets? For example could I literally code a complex game once and run it on iPhone (provided I add the right resolution and touch screen controls)?

Also, how easy is it to interface with C++? Could I, for example, write most of the logic in C++, and then have a main loop written in GLBasic that basically executes the networking and drawing..etc Or better yet can I use the SDK (and hence all GLBasics features) from C++, then have it compile for all GLBasics awesome targets? If so how?