I want language features of Monkey
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| I think it is fair to ask to have Monkey's language features added to BlitzMax. Here I am specifically talking about generics and function overloading. I am willing to pay $20 for Blitzmax upgrade. You can call it BlitzMax II. |
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| I think it's fair to ask. I also think it's fair for Mark to say no. |
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| It's not often the market research comes to you. I'd pay $100+ for some of these features. I'd pay $100 for an improved debugger alone. Going from MS Visual Studio debugging to debugging BlitzMax is very hard. Last edited 2011 |
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| It's also fair to say that if he didn't do it when he spend plenty of time in it(there were plenty of requests for such), I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for him to update now. |
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| A lot of these features could be added ourselves using an advanced pre-processor of sorts. |
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| Flavis, I don't know about Monkey's debugging feature. Does it have better debugger? |
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| I would definitely pay for the above mentioned features. |
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| I don't know about Monkey's debugging feature. Does it have better debugger? *cough* |
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| Does it have better debugger? Debugger!?? DEBUGGER!?!? MUUHHAA HHHAAAA HHHAAAA HHHHAAA!! Errr... sorry ;) |
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| Doesn't monkey have a debugger? I haven't tried it. |
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| No, Monkey doesnt have a debugger... but most of the targets do - so you write Monkey code, compile into your target eg Android, if you then want to do it you've got to use lots of Print statements in Monkey or load up Eclipse and try to debug it that way ;) Last edited 2011 |
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| Print is monkey's best friend ;) |
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| OK, let me explain it now. I began a project last week and I picked Blitzmax after three years. Yesterday, I realized I am using DrawText a lot, then I made a function using only Text(). Then, I became interested in writing different forms of Text(), one of them with color, but I found Blitzmax can do only with one form, so I wrote TextC(). Then, I searched to see if people have come to this kind of situation. I found Blitzmax doesn't have this feature, but Monkey does. So I decided to put that comment up there. I use all kinds of languages for different projects all of them small and non-profit. So, what is extra to Monkey's language is good to have with Blitzmax, since it has already been worked out. I thought paying extra for having new features are fair. That simple, no grievance, just a feature request. I code for PC only, so I don't need Monkey as a substitute for Blitzmax. About the debugger, in my case, print statement is OK for now. If I find I need real debugging, I will convert the project to C++ or C#. But, I am just simulating the core of an economic theory and the software is not at all big. It is actually finished and only the XY-Charts are left. I fully understand debugging frustrations, but perhaps some people have limited usages so they have limited demands, just like my case. |
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You could always do something like this:
Function Text(MyText:String,ColorR:Int = -1, ColorG:int = -1, ColorB:Int = -1)
If ColorR < 0
DoNonColorPrinting()
Else
DoColorPrinting()
End If
End Function
That way, you can use Text() for both non color and color version. It won't help in all situations where overloading is useful, but it does help in many. |
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| What's wrong with DrawText? It supports colour. |
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| TomRoad, that's good too, thanks! |
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