Instructions

1) Download and install Upgrade 7.1. You can get it from the download box below these instructions. This upgrade will only work with the full version of DarkBASIC Professional.

2) If you have already activated DarkBASIC Professional, you do not need to do this again after installing this Upgrade.

As with any upgrade - always take a backup of your source code (usually your "Projects" folder) before installing.

DarkBASIC Professional Upgrade 7.1
	Download:	DarkBASIC Professional Upgrade 7.1
	File Size:	17.27 MB
		56Kb: 49 Mins 6 Secs 512Kb: 5 Mins 21 Secs 1MB: 2 Mins 40 Secs 2Mb: 1 Mins 24 Secs
	Updated:	14th Jan 2010
	Description:	Latest upgrade for DarkBASIC Professional.
	Downloads:	1638

• Thanks to IANM for his suggestion to add USER TYPE DATA into the EXECUTABLE, adding Scientific Notation and the GET ARRAY TYPE and GET TYPE PATTERN commands
• Thanks to GREENGANDALF for his suggestion of LOAD IMAGE for volume textures and fixing the MAKE SOUND FROM MEMBLOCK so many more 'larger' WAVs can be used
• Thanks to SCRAGGLE for his ideas resulting in MEMBLOCKS being added to DBOs
• Thanks to DIGGORY for his help in developing a new external debugger, and the arm-twisting that allowed any DBPro application to expose its internal pointers
• Thanks to everyone else who combined their ideas into a great DBPro push!
• And finally don't forget the sponge!

• Added extra info for LOAD IMAGE and SAVE IMAGE
• Added help pages for ADD MEMBLOCK TO OBJECT, GET MEMBLOCK FROM OBJECT, DELETE MEMBLOCK FROM OBJECT (only adds a memblock to the object, does not represent the object!)
• Added DBO to the file formats supported in the LOAD OBJECT help page
• Added help page for GET TYPE PATTERN$() and GET ARRAY TYPE()
• Added extra information to SET OBJECT FRAME command page
• updated GLOBSTRUCT and DBO files in Technical Documents folder
• Added update to FASTSYNC command help
• Added command help for post process shading in CORE and DISPLAY
• 241 instances of Arbitarychanged to Arbitrary in GameFX help
• SEPARATETEXTUREMEMORIES AVAILABLE corrected in command and help system
• INCLUDE and CONSTANT in CORE subcategory help menu links to help page now (#=%23)
• Above fix also applied to generation of the new KEYWORDS file after each rebuild
• Fixed EXAMPLE in BREAK command
• Updated KEYSTATE help page with user contributed example (thanks pcRaider)
• Added GameFX commands to the INDEX in the main help system
• Corrected help system to correctly choose MAKE OBJECT PLANE for KEYWORDS
• Updated OFFSETLIMB command with description of bounds and a new example
• SET OBJECT TO OBJECT ORIENTATION help page improved with flag and example
• Added more description and new example for SET LIGHT MAPPING ON command
• Added help for the ignore mode in MAKE MESH FROM OBJECT
• Added help for new values 2 and 3 for SET GLOBAL OBJECT CREATION and DELETE OBJECTS
• Updated the help to SET MUSIC VOLUME to reflect true maximum volume of 100
• Updated help for LOAD SOUND and LOAD3DSOUND
• Updated PRINCIPALS section on BOOLEAN OPERATORS
• OPEN TO READ updated
• LOAD IMAGE, SCALE LIMB TEXTURE and SCALE OBJECT TEXTURE help page updated
• SCROLL LIMB TEXTURE and SCROLL OBJECT TEXTURE help page updated
• Added ZWRITE and ZREAD to BASIC3D sub category of commands
• SET DIR and CD help pages updated
• Updated the SET SCREEN EFFECT and TEXTURE SCREEN commands
• Added new SNIPPET example showing how to use XBOX 360 controller input device
• Added help for SET DISPLAY MODE to include VSYNC, ANTIALIAS and MULTIMONITOR
• Reduced description in SCALE SPRITE command so second parameter is not clipped
• Removed ALWAYS ACTIVE ON/OFF from Help Index, these are obsolete commands
• Updated help generator to correct CONSTANT and INCLUDE help links
• Removed APPEND OBJECT ANIMATION from help index
• Updated AUTOMATIC OBJECT COLLISIOn with additional info on sliding collision mode
• Updated ATAN to reflect ARCTANGENT in description and correct range
• Updated SET CAMERA FOV to correct default description of 61.9621391296
• Updated the SET OBJECT SPEED command with more accurate info on speed value
• Added array name description for core array commands and updated some examples
• Added extra help in principals for Power symbol and integer/real division
• Added extra example for LOCAL and GLOBAL variable declarations
• Updated getting started to offer dual help for the old(default) and new(DGS) interfaces
• Added additional new commands to the INDEX page
• Added more example and help to FTP CONNECT page
• Added more help to the LOAD EFFECT command

• Added support for Scientific Notation as literal (i.e. 1.0E + 38 or 1E20, etc)
• Compiler now exports internal type structure pattern data (obtain via GET TYPE PATTERN$)
• If application executable does not use Basic3D, then do not check for DirectX (GDI)
• Core can obtain DirectX version with GET DX VERSION$() even in GDI mode (no Basic3D)
• Added new support for external debuggers using a MUTEX just before code executed
• Above code creates a mutex and filemap called Appname.exe(Mutex) & Appname.exe(FileMap) [case sensitive], using "debugme" in filemap to pause app
• New GLOBSTRUCT edited to support above (no data structure changes, just a rename)
• Removed FILL X with X from DBM export to aid in creation of external debugger
• Usurped use of the EXEPATH string in GLOBSTRUCT to carry extra runtime error info
• Above will produce a new single error message box containing 'any' extra error text
• Fixed bug caused by removing FillX in DBM (restored ability to calculate local variable offsets)
• Fixed line number issue in DBM to help external debuggers trace correct progress
• A single GameFX command in an empty program no longer crashes the compiler
• Added DLL support for new as yet unreleased product, GreenEAR, to be announced shortly
• Fixed string corruption leak caused by new datatype pattern string system
• Fixed bug causing left side operand not casting if array type (i.e. INT * FLOAT = INT bug)
• Forced safety code for subsciptless array calls ( i.e. A() ) to avoid crash when safe arrays off

• New command called pattern$=GET TYPE PATTERN$(typename$,index) to get type format
• New command called GET ARRAY TYPE to return internal type index of the array
• Fixed bug causing array delete element to leak memory if string in user type used
• Modified application executable so window does not minimise before closing window
• Set CHANGE MOUSE to value of 32 will cease to use SetCursor in WM_MOUSEMOVE
• Added DRAW TO CAMERA and DRAW TO SCREEN to support quicker post process shaders
• Removed assumption that Basic3D is loaded in for post process quad rendering

• Added TEXTURE SCREEN and SET SCREEN EFFECT to support quicker post process shaders
• Removed some hack code from DarkGDK merging causing Vista users to get Multisamping X2 no matter what

• Added support in LOAD IMAGE for mode 3 which now loads a volume texture
• Fixed bug in GET IMAGE mode 3 which used color-key when it should not have

• Fixed bug that caused SOUND FROM MEMBLOCK to cast DWORD data to WORD (sound crash)

• Special case allowance for instances to cast shadows if shader flag set to one
• New commands added; ADD MEMBLOCK TO OBJECT, GET MEMBLOCK FROM OBJECT, DELETE MEMBLOCK FROM OBJECT (only adds a memblock to the object, does not represent the object!)
• Fixed bug causing any reflection views to be overridden by code in UpdateInitOnce
• Added new mode 3 to SET OBJECT FRAME to cause bounds to recreate without frame zero shift
• If SET REFLECTION SHADING ON command used, all frustrum culling is disabled
• Added error information to a mesh load failure (includes ID and filename)
• Objects excluded cause the object render order to refresh (keeps 3D up to date)
• SET OBJECT TO OBJECT ORIENTATION has also been fixed no longer crashes if flag used
• Removed EXCLUDE code from TEXTURE SORT code (to regain SYNC speed from U69)
• Added two new parameter values to SET GLOBAL OBJECT CREATION (2 and 3) with help
• LOAD OBJECT can now detect model texture files in absolute paths, relative within model file
• Fixed bug causing trianglelist meshes and trianglestrip meshes not to combine in one object
• Added new parameter to LOAD EFFECT which allows secondary UV data to be stripped from a shaded object

• Fixed bug causing sound to crash if try to delete an unloaded OGG during the load
• Added new parameter to LOAD SOUND and LOAD3DSOUND for Global Sound Flag
• String table updated to hold new Global Sound Flag parameter for command

• Fixed bug causing sound to crash if try to delete an unloaded OGG during the load
• Added new parameter to LOAD SOUND and LOAD3DSOUND for Global Sound Flag
• String table updated to hold new Global Sound Flag parameter for command

• Improved ADD LOD TO OBJECT slightly to introduce automated alpha blending

Please note that this Upgrade includes all fixes and enhancements found in previous versions.