Is BlitzPlus even still being worked on?

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JoeDude36 (Posted 2013) [#1]

I feel like they dont even work on BlitzPlus anymore, cause it hasnt been updated in forever, and its free now so...

Who was John Galt? (Posted 2013) [#2]

They don't, barring bug fixes if required.

GaryV (Posted 2013) [#3]

They don't, barring bug fixes if required. This is incorrect as even bug fixes are not fixed. There has been a major bug in the OpenGL system for many years that causes the program to crash on exit and it has never been fixed, even though it has been reported many times.

JoeDude36 (Posted 2013) [#4]

Thank you both

skidracer (Posted 2013) [#5]

Link please.

GaryV (Posted 2013) [#6]

skidracer: It was first reported eight years ago on this forum: http://blitzbasic.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=91262 http://blitzbasic.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=52049 http://blitzbasic.co.nz/Community/posts.php?topic=49739 The DirectDraw 1 side of BP could have the same issues under Windows 8 when run fullscreen that DD7 and D3D7 are having. If this bug was fixed, BlitzPlus would still have a nice long life ahead of it, since OpenGL would still work fine on Windows 8. Unfortunately, OpenGL is only usable in a GUI window because it always crashes on exit when used with a graphics window or fullscreen. About four years back I sent in a bug report via email when I first discovered it, along with code to reproduce it.

Kevin_ (Posted 2013) [#7]

Use the NATIVE drawing mode instead of OpenGL or DirectDraw .... totalDrivers=CountGfxDrivers() SetGfxDriver 1 It works for me. Its also the fastest and most compatible on different versions of Windows.

GaryV (Posted 2013) [#8]

totalDrivers=CountGfxDrivers() SetGfxDriver 1 The top line of code is unnecessary as the native driver will be available on all systems. Unfortunately, it is software based and not hardware accelerated like OpenGL and is much slower. Since he asked about it, it would be nice if Skidracer could comment on whether this OpenGL bug could be fixed?

skidracer (Posted 2013) [#9]

Thanks for links, I am still planning to try and reproduce the issue.

GaryV (Posted 2013) [#10]

Thank you skidracer. I really appreciate it.

GaryV (Posted 2013) [#11]

Have you had any luck skidracer?

GaryV (Posted 2013) [#12]

Skidracer: Can you give any information?

GaryV (Posted 2013) [#13]

I stand by my comments in post #3. BRL are not fixing known bugs that cause BlitzPlus to crash.