Gl_B 12.243 What's new?

[S.O.P.M.]

Jep

[matchy]

Where can I donate?

IMHO best way is to use Paypal, if you have an account. Gernots Paypal account can be found in the shop. (if you dont select GLBasic Premium, you can select any amount you want to spend).

This suggestion is just from me, I do not know if Gernot wants to get donations and if he does I dont know which way he prefers it.

The name "Gernot" is not a member of the forum, so why do you talk about him like he is? There's seems to be some character issues here.

[erico]

That is a point...

Maybe the way to go is to use the STORE section on main GLBasic page, on the "Fan Articles" there is a donate button, make sure you also send a message by paypal and by the CONTACT link also on the main GLBasic page (here you will see Gernot´s name). That is the way I do it anyways.

[matchy]

My point is that the character Gernot, as opposed to Dream Design and Kitty Hello, is a representation of a programmer and/or team of, at least to new users and members, what sells the product, whether it's donations or upgrade costs. It's this fragmentation that could be cleared up with a bit of marketing, hence the idea of donate button presentation.

I have no idea how GLBasic should be funded but it would be our best interests to introduce more users. It's been suggested that crowd funding would enable so much more in production but even that could be too much pressure and I really don't know how many really work on it now, but have appreciated the use of one license key for all versions and upgrade cost for any software products is more functionally related.

[erico]

Yep, I get that point from the previous post.

While off topic, I certainly agree that it is hard to find personal info or who is the boss when in a new user´s shoes.
In my case, when I first came around, I tested things first before ever committing to the tool.

Testing meant that I had to be able to pull things I wanted by my own with it while introducing myself to the forum.
While on forum, my goal is to help those that need on the specifics I can, try to ask only when truly needed and in that case, to report the outcomes back for everyone.

I´m sure every new user is not going to go like that, so we get a lot of askers/no return in the forum, or people that demand to talk with the manager in agony or rage.
Maybe this is a point worth a newer thread, if transparency on GLBasic dev is such a must, specially for newer users?
I myself don´t much care about, as a transparency means extra work for those that do plus more pressure from those without good sense.
It could be nice, but it could be abused. So the way I see, everything is moving along fine, it could be improved sure, but how?

Crowd funding is something to think about, I´m not quite sure about it being good though, very mixed feelings on it.

[matchy]

Crowd funding is really a direct method is what normally would require a team of personal, so I'd like to try but would feel more comfortable with a admin team members, interns, coffee gofers.  Although I understand what you mean by the abuse of service when single new users on cf sites are asking simple begging for a new computer. Oh and an example confidence interruption; yesterday I tried to update my Minecraft bukkit server but the lead programmer has dropped or passed it to Mojang and it's unavailable at the moment. This sort of model also happened with World of Warcraft add-in.

[erico]

Yep I´m aware of the bukkit novela while I don´t use it.
Good thing it is not our case me guesses, I see crowd funding as a pre-sales shot with the ability of a lot of moaners.
In my opinion, GLBasic as it is, needs no pre-sales, and I´m pretty sure no one would stand to help a moaner on the forum.

Still, such idea would depend on Gernot willing to do so for his own reasons.
If he is willing to do so, then some extra ideas might be baked about the approach of things.

It is a tough time on the game/app-making business right now, but then, when in the last 10 years it wasen´t?

[mrplant]

12.312 seems fine again here!

Can I request one thing that has changed in the more recent 12.x releases..

I am scrolling into the screen a huge graphic splash loading screen a few pixels at a time.  My code hasn't changed in a few years. On iOS it works fine. On PC/Mac it staggers and tears as if VSYNC is not enabled. It is updating the display through a refresh to the monitor it looks like.

Anyone else notice this behaviour and is there a fix?

Thanks on your continued work on GLBasic.

[S.O.P.M.]

Yeah, I noticed it several times. What I do is to minimize and restore the window, then I got perfect smooth animations, so it seems it's synced then.

[Moru]

Sometimes this is a setting you need to do in the grafics drivers. Especially if you are using the sort that has different profiles for different games/programs.

[spacefractal]

Vsync dosent work on Mac at all and is quite very heavy in Karma Miwa, but it's works fine on Windows.

[erico]

Hey Moru, Apple does not allow its users to tweek the gfx card, so no, you don´t have settings like a PC.
My guess is similar to Spacefractal, probably a vsync issue.

[Kitty Hello]

What does the console output say?

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