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thanks shockwave.  managed to sort the problem this time.. it was some code that was run before the sub routine.. hope to post *something* soon... 

Hi All,

I'm new to FreeBasic and demo coding and wanted to get some advice..

I've read the FreeBasic tutorials on the site, which are great btw (I read them right through and understand the code)! I've tried modifying the scroller demo into a bit of an intro.  However, when I call my own sub routine from within the WHILE loop which calls the sub routine for the scroller etc it makes it run kinda jerky.  The scroller is like skipping frames because it is dealing with the other routine inbetween.  I suppose really I just need a bit of advice about structuring my code so things are called correctly and more than one thing going on doesn't interrupt the other.

Don't know if I explained that well enough but I hope so.  I didn't put any code here as theres not much to see really, just drawing of lines, pixels etc.

any advice or links would be really cool!

cheers

housey 

thanks shockwave, i'll work my way through these.. although I had a bit of trouble last night after installing TINYPTC.. i'll give it ago again tonight when I have more time.

Hey Jojo, good to see ya... maybe they'll be a trance intro in the future, who knows   

Hi all and thanks for the welcome!

I think I will have a look at FreeBasic and follow the tutorials here and see what I can come up with.  To be honest I will be happy if I can get a small intro together (with scroller, starfield and logo) and then see how I progress after that.

thanks again and see you around for tips and advice! 

hi,

Firstly, i'd like to say thanks for this great site and forum.

I've been wanting to code an intro or something for a long time now and this might just help!

I haven't had much experience with high level languages like C++, pascal, basic etc for years and even when I did I wasn't that good.  I now do a lot of web programming with php, javascript etc.

The thing is i'm thinking of try to write some intros/demos but not sure what to use.  I want something that will give me quck results and not be as hard as C++ (taking into account opengl etc).  I have tried blitz basic before and it seemed quite good but now I see FreeBasic and PureBasic.  I'm thinking one of these may be the best to start with but i'm unsure which.  Can anybody give pros and cons between the two?

I've thought about sharpening my action script skills and writing demos in that as it'll be more platform independant and future proof.  But flash does have its draw backs, compiled demos always seem better and exe's seem pretty cool.

Anyway, nice to be here and I hope I can get atleast on intro started... erm finished 



lol woops, just seen 'the welcoming committee' thread, sorry! although this is a question really.