Latest AMS version?

[Imagine Programming]

We should have a beta release later this week...

*Get's an heartattack* WHAT? wait, I take that back, not getting an heartattack,
but later this week ?

[Dermot]

We should have a beta release later this week...

Awesome! :yes:yes

[Tomasin]

What's New in new version?

[Ted Sullivan]

We should have a beta release later this week...

[RizlaUK]

ooooo, AMS8 and Carnival in the same weekend, coool :lol


shame tho, i will be in a tent that weekend, wishing i said no to another camping holiday!!! (the kids love it, so what can i say)

[Derek]

.. end of August

[RizlaUK]

so.......

IR, how soon is "Very Soon"

you guys have been working all Easter...right?, lol

(^^that was a joke, read it and laugh FFS)

But seriously, are we talking weeks/months ....... or just a matter of days?

[Imagine Programming]

yea, its a strange one that, the PB team changed the function (and some others) a few versions back and it broke a lot of my code, i tried sending in the actual structure but got a corrupt c stack after the call, the shift is the only stable argument is seems to accept......bit lame really, there was nothing wrong with sending a X,Y argument IMO

Perhaps the datatype PB sends to the procedure has changed, and requires you
to shift Y 4 bytes to the left (a long) and add X to the last 32 bits. Which makes
the end number you send a quad/double... wth

[RizlaUK]

yea, its a strange one that, the PB team changed the function (and some others) a few versions back and it broke a lot of my code, i tried sending in the actual structure but got a corrupt c stack after the call, the shift is the only stable argument is seems to accept......bit lame really, there was nothing wrong with sending a X,Y argument IMO

[Imagine Programming]

Bas, remind you of anything ??

Haha yeah Check your messages, it reminds me of even more

About the IsInRect function by the way, I know, I use it aswell and I must say,
I had bad as* bugs without the arithmetic shift

[RizlaUK]

i do remember that being said, but also IR have confirmed that AMS8 is on the cards and will be here very soon, so im unsure what to make of it all

i think IR should make a new tool, "Visual LUA" or whatever, leave out all the multimedia stuff and add the win API object list to it

imagine being able to program directly off the API with lua, wouldn't that be cool........

Bas, remind you of anything ??

[Imagine Programming]

There was talk of a 'Visual Lua' - altho the name was only a suggestion.
(With so many things on the wish list for future AMS releases) IR suggested they may consider creating a new application. Visual Lua (or whatever it was to be called) would be more of a Windows application dev tool, leaving AMS to concentrate on the media studio side of things.

Hmm, that sounds even more interesting than AMS, but then again, what can't
we do in AMS what could be done in 'Visual Lua'. AMS is evolved to a software
development kit the past years, thanks to it's lovely plugin system, you can do
anything you want :yes

Maybe!
I believe we were told AMS would not be developed/released in the same way as it had been, but, instead, continuing improvements would be made on v7 and a 'v8' would never really be on the cards. Tho everybody still refers to it as AMS8!

I guess we'll have to wait then, it's easter, IR team, spill it, give us an easteregg, and tell us all the facts

[Derek]

Yes, what is visual lua?

There was talk of a 'Visual Lua' - altho the name was only a suggestion.
(With so many things on the wish list for future AMS releases) IR suggested they may consider creating a new application. Visual Lua (or whatever it was to be called) would be more of a Windows application dev tool, leaving AMS to concentrate on the media studio side of things.

Besides, AMS8 is not 7.6, but 8 right ?

Maybe!
I believe we were told AMS would not be developed/released in the same way as it had been, but, instead, continuing improvements would be made on v7 and a 'v8' would never really be on the cards. Tho everybody still refers to it as AMS8!

[RizlaUK]

yea, i often have to use that little trick in my callbacks "PtInRect" for instance needs the actual point structure and not a pointer like most other functions, so i send in (pt\x<<32pt\y) anything else seems to make it unstable

EG: (one of my many support functions)

Procedure IsMouseInRect(hWnd)

  Protected lp.RECT
  Protected pt.POINT
  
  If GetWindowRect_(hWnd,lp)
    If GetCursorPos_(pt)               
      If PtInRect_(lp,pt\y<<32+pt\x)
        ProcedureReturn #True 
      Else
        ProcedureReturn #False
      EndIf
    EndIf
  EndIf

EndProcedure

[Imagine Programming]

me too!

Me too, I'm thrilled, I can't wait :yes

ooo, Byte me, lol

Haha, yeah, soz The first time I started doing bitwise stuff I was completely
confused, but then I learned calculating in binary at school and bitwise really
became clear to me! Arithmetic shifting is the complicated bitwise operation,
but it's not too complicated ^^ I love the bitwise Or,Xor and Not aswell :yes