SmallBASIC 12.33

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After a lot of changes for the Android version and a Flatpak package for Linux finally the Windows version of SmallBASIC 12.33 can be downloaded.

The top changes are:

  • SDL: Update to SDL3
  • SDL: Add editor tool bar
  • SDL: Updated to use modern desktop icon
  • SDL: Update help display
  • FLTK: Updated to use modern desktop icon
  • COMMON: Add image scaling
    I2 = image("test.png", 0.5)     ' downscaling by factor 2
I2.show(65,1)
I3 = image("test.png", 2)       ' upscaling by factor 2
I3.show(97,1)
  • COMMON: Add Transpose()
    A = [1,2; 3,4; 5,6]
print transpose(A)   ' output: [1,3,5;2,4,6]
  • FIX: TICKS stops working after 50 days
  • FIX: Non-posix baud rates
  • FIX: Odd behavior with suppressing newline in console version
  • FIX: Bug with DELAY(0)
  • FIX: Module callback error
  • FIX: Issue with space char before import ‘c-module’
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I was wondering about ticks(). Any reason we don’t have the option to reset to zero?

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TICKS gives the number of milliseconds since start of the OS. Relative time measurement is quite easy using SmallBASIC by storing the start time in a variable. Settting TICKS to zero would be possible but I don’t see big benefits right now . Do you have some ideas where this would be useful?

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It’s no big deal apart from rollover anxiety which it sounds like you have addressed.

It’s just a bit cleaner in MMBasic:

Timer=0

do
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.
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loop while Timer < 100
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I had a quick look how to implement this. I think I can do something like this:

ticks(0)

repeat
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until ticks() > 100
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Awesome :+1: :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: and presumably this happens across all platforms, including Teensy?

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Thanks for the update, the toolbar is nice at the bottom of the SDL version, and of coarse who doesn’t like the Console :slight_smile: