OT: SVGA-lib for QB

[theuserbl]

Ok, it is a little bit off topic in a FB forum.
But yesterday I have seen, that there existing a SVGA-lib for QuickBasic 4.5
It comes with examples.

The number of SCREEN mods are extended there.

The author says, that it runs also on WinXP.


I post this only for information.
Possibly QB-extensions, -implementations and so on, would be most compatible to each other then possible.

For example: that SCREEN 100 in FB is the same like XSCREEN &H100 in the SVGA-lib.
Or - if talked with the SVGA-lib author - that the numers of the XSCREEN of the SVGA-lib are identical with the numbers in FB.

I think, there existing only one QB-community. And it would be nice, if all QB-extensions and QB-reimplementations, which go ways where the poor QB never was, are most compatible to each other then possible.

Greatings
theuserbl

[na_th_an]

There are many SVGA libs for QB, Future.Lib or uGL to name a few, which are far more popular (and modern, and more featured) than SVGALIB. They work with Windows XP... if the Videocard is fully vesa-compliant.

I mean that probably more people have used Future.Lib or uGL 'cause they are more popular, and those use completely different syntaxes to set a video mode (each one has its own).

Anyways, the gfx lib Angelo is working on and which will become the standard GFX lib for fB from the next release onwards can access what people call "SVGA modes" using SCREEN. Those numbers used in SVGALIB are the VESA mode numbers, that have absolutely no meaning nowadays.

[theuserbl]

There are many SVGA libs for QB, Future.Lib or uGL to name a few, which are far more popular (and modern, and more featured) than SVGALIB.

I have now googled for it. And you are right.
And it seems, that they are existing also on the same side on which I have linked to.

I mean that probably more people have used Future.Lib or uGL 'cause they are more popular, and those use completely different syntaxes to set a video mode (each one has its own).

Aha.
The point is, that I since today mostly have used the pure QB.
And so I was surprised as I have seen in the "Updated Libs" section on QBasic.de the lib, which I have mentiond.

But thanks for mention the other two llibs. I will testing them later.

Anyways, the gfx lib Angelo is working on and which will become the standard GFX lib for fB from the next release onwards can access what people call "SVGA modes" using SCREEN. Those numbers used in SVGALIB are the VESA mode numbers, that have absolutely no meaning nowadays.

Aha. Thanks for your answer.


Greatings
theuserbl